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Clause (9) substituted vide H.P. Act No. 18 of 1971. 4 THE HIMACHAL PRADESH GENERAL CLAUSES ACT, 196 be used, or which may be used, for the purpose of recording that matter; (15) “enactment" shall include any provision contained in any Himachal Pradesh Act; (16) “father" in the case of any one whose personal law admits adoption shall include an adoptive father; (17) “Financial Commissioner" shall mean the Financial Commissioner of Himachal Pradesh 1[* * * * * ]; (18) “financial year" shall mean the year commencing on the first day of April; (19) a thing shall be deemed to be done in “good faith" where it is in fact done honestly, whether it is done negligently or not; (20) “Government" or “the Government" shall include the State Government as well as the Central Government; (21) “Himachal Pradesh Act" shall mean an Act made by the Legislative Assembly of Himachal Pradesh,2[and shall include an Act passed by the Legislative Assembly of the Part C State of Himachal Pradesh or by the Legislative Assembly of Union Territory of Himachal Pradesh constituted under the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963] or an Act of any other State extended to Himachal Pradesh as it existed immediately before 1st November, 1966 by the Government of India, or an Act of an erstwhile Ruler and in force in any part of Himachal Pradesh, or a Punjab Act in force in the areas added to Himachal Pradesh under section 5 of the Punjab Re-organisation Act, 1966 (31 of 1966), by virtue of section 88 of the said Act; (22) “immovable property" shall include land, benefits to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth; (23) “imprisonment" shall mean imprisonment of either description as defined in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860); (24) 3[ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ]; (25) “local authority"shall mean a municipal committee, district board, zila parishad, panchayat samiti, notified area committee, gram panchayat, body of port commissioners or other authority legally entitled to, or entrusted by the Government with, the control or management of a municipal or local fund;