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(1) This Act may be called the Deori Autonomous Council Act, 2005. (2). It extends to the whole of the state of Assam. 3). It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of the Act or different areas. (2) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, - (a) ' bye-law’ means the bye-law framed by the General Council; (b) ‘Constitution’ means, the Constitution of India; (c) ‘ Constituency' means, a constituency referred to in section 48 ; (d) 'Council Area’ means the Deori Autonomous Council Area ; (dd) “ Core Areas’ means the compact and contiguous areas predominantly inhabited by Deori community and having more than 50% Scheduled Tribes populations as a whole in the area and not necessarily in the individual villages. (e) 1 Executive Council’ means the executive body of the General Council of the Deori Autonomous Council constituted under section 3 (3) and 24 ; (f) ‘ Elector’ in relation to a constituency means a person whose name is entered in the electoral roll of that constituency ; (g) ‘ General Council Fund’ and ‘ Village Council Fund’ means the funds constituted under section 61; (h) ‘ Government’ means the State Government of Assam; (i) ‘Governor’ means the Governor of Assam ; (j) ‘General Council ‘ means the General Council of the Deori Autonomous Council referred to in sectiqn 3 ; (k) ‘Gaon Panchayat’,'Anchalik Panchayat’ Assam Act XVIII of 1994 THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, MAY 17, 2005 1597 Deori Autonomous Council. Village Council and ‘Zila Parishad' have the same meaning defined in the Assam Panchayat Act, 1994 ; (l) ‘Member’ means a member of the Assam Village Council or the General Council Act XV of or the Executive Council, as the case 1957 may be ; (m) ‘Municipality’ has the same meaning as in the Assam Municipal Act, 1956; (n) ‘Notification’ means the notification issued under this A ct; (o) ‘Official Gazette’ means the Official Gazette of Assam ; (p) 'prescribed' means prescribed by rules made under this A ct; (q) 'Satellite area’ means the area or areas consisting of non contiguous cluster of villages predominantly inhabited by Deori community and having more than 50% Schedule Tribes population as a whole in the cluster and not necessarily in the individual villages; (r) ‘ Village Council’ means the Village Councils referred to in section 4 ; and (s) ‘Village Council Area’ means the area declared to be the area of a Village Council by the Government by notification in the Official Gazette.