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Ins. by section 5(iii) ibid. 80 [The Uttar Pradesh General Clauses Act, 1904] [Section 4] "Collector" (9) "Collector" shall mean the chief officer in charge of the revenue administration of a district, and shall include a Deputy Commissioner and the Superintendent, Dehra Dun; "Commencement" (10) "Commencement", used with reference to an Act, shall mean the day on which the Act comes into force; "Commissioner" (11) "Commissioner" shall mean the chief officer in charge of the revenue administration of a division; [(11-A) "Constitution" shall mean the Constitution of India; (11-B) "daughter", in the case of any person the law applicable to whom permits the adoption of a daughter, shall include an adopted daughter; (11-C) "day" shall mean a period of twenty-four hours beginning at midnight;]1 "District Judge' (12) "District Judge" shall mean the Judge of a principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction, but shall not include a High Court in the exercise of its ordinary or extraordinary original civil jurisdiction; [(12-A) "District Magistrate" shall mean a person appointed as such under sub-section (1) of section 20 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and shall include the Deputy Commissioner of a District; ]2 "Document" (13) "document" shall include any matter written, expressed or described upon any substance by means of letters, figures of marks, or by more than one of those means, which is intended to be used or which may be used for the purpose of recording that matter; "Enactment" (14) "enactment" shall include a Regulation (as hereinafter defined) and any Regulation of the Bengal, Madras or Bombay Code, and shall also include any provisions contained in any Act or in any such Regulation as aforesaid; "Father" (15) "father", in the case of any one whose personal law permits adoption, shall include an adoptive father; "Financial year" (16) "financial year" shall mean the year commencing on the first day of April; "Good faith" (17) 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; "Gazette" [(18) "Gazette" shall mean the official Gazette for [Uttar Pradesh]3;