"Article" means Article of the Constitution;
"borrow" includes the raising of money by the grant of annuities, and "loans" shall be construed
accordingly;
"Chairman" means the Chairman of the Senate and, except in Article 49, includes a person acting
as Chairman of the Senate;
1["Chief Justice", in relation to the Supreme Court or a High Court, includes the Judge for the
time being acting as Chief Justice of the Court;]
"citizen" means a citizen of Pakistan as defined by law;
"clause" means clause of the Article in which it occurs;
2* * * * * * *
"corporation tax" means any tax on income that is payable by companies and in respect of which
the following conditions apply:—
(a) the tax is not chargeable in respect of agricultural income;
(b) no deduction in respect of the tax paid by companies is, by any law which may apply to
the tax, authorised to be made from dividends payable by the companies to individuals;
(c) no provision exists for taking the tax so paid into account in computing for the purposes of
incometax the total income of individual receiving such dividends, or in computing the
incometax payable by, or refundable to, such individuals;
"debt" includes any liability in respect of any obligation to repay capital sums by way of
annuities and any liability under any guarantee, and "debt charges" shall be construed accordingly;
"estate duty" means a duty assessed on, or by reference to, the value of property passing upon
death;
"existing law" has the same meaning as in clause (7) of Article 268;
"Federal law" means a law made by or under the authority of 3[Majlis eShoora (Parliament)];
"financial year" means a year commencing on the first day of July;
"goods" includes all materials, commodities and articles;
"Governor" means the Governor of a Province and includes any person for the time being acting
as the Governor of a Province;
1 Ins. by the Constitution (First Amdt.) Act, 1974 (33 of 1974), s. 15.
2 The definition of expression "consultation" omitted by the Constitution (Eighteenth Amdt.) Act, 2010 (10 of2010), s. 92.
3 Subs. by the Revival of the Constitution of 1973 Order, 1985 (P.O. No. 14 of 1985), Art. 2 and Sch., for "Parliament".
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