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Ins. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 1) Order, 1956. 7 (44) “Presidency-town” shall mean the local limits for the time being of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court of Judicature at Calcutta, Madras or Bombay, as the case may be; (45) “Province” shall mean a Presidency, a Governor’s Province, a Lieutenant Governor’s Province or a Chief Commissioner's Province; (46) “Provincial Act” shall mean an Act made by the Governor in Council, Lieutenant Governor in Council or Chief Commissioner in Council of a Province under any of the Indian Councils Acts or the Government of India Act, 1915, or an Act made by the Local Legislature or the Governor of a Province under the Government of India Act, or an Act made by the Provincial Legislature or Governor of a Province or the Coorg Legislative Council under the Government of India Act, 1935; (47) “Provincial Government” shall mean, as respects anything done before the commencement of the Constitution, the authority or person authorised at the relevant date to administer executive Government in the Province in question; (48) “public nuisance” shall mean a public nuisance as defined in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860); (49) “registered”, used with reference to a document, shall mean registered in 1[India] under the law for the time being in force for the registration of documents; (50) “Regulation” shall mean a Regulation made by the President 2[under article 240 of the Constitution and shall include a Regulation made by the President under article 243 thereof and] a Regulation made by the Central Government under the Government of India Act, 1870, or the Government of India Act, 1915, or the Government of India Act, 1935; (51) “rule” shall mean a rule made in exercise of a power conferred by any enactment, and shall include a Regulation made as a rule under any enactment; (52) “schedule” shall mean a schedule to the Act or Regulation in which the word occurs; (53) “Scheduled District” shall mean a “Scheduled District” as defined in the Scheduled Districts Act, 1874; (54) “section” shall mean a section of the Act or Regulation in which the word occurs; (55) “ship” shall include every description of vessel used in navigation not exclusively propelled by oars; (56) “sign”, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall, with reference to a person who is unable to write his name, include “mark”, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions; (57) “son”, in the case of any one whose personal law permits adoption, shall include an adopted son; 3[(58) “State”— (a) as respects any period before the commencement of the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, shall mean a Part A State, a Part B State or a Part C State; and (b) as respects any period after such commencement, shall mean a State specified in the First Schedule to the Constitution and shall include a Union territory;] (59) “State Act” shall mean an Act passed by the Legislature of a State established or continued by the Constitution; (60) “State Government”,— (a) as respects anything done before the commencement of the Constitution, shall mean, in a Part A State, the Provincial Government of the corresponding Province, in a Part B State, the