"guarantee" includes any obligation undertaken before the commencing day to make
payments in the event of the profits of an undertaking falling short of a specified amount;
"House" means the Senate or the National Assembly;
"Joint sitting" means a joint sitting of the two Houses;
"Judge" in relation to the Supreme Court or a High Court, includes the Chief Justice of the Court
and also includes—
(a) in relation to the Supreme Court, a person who is acting as a Judge of the Court; and
(b) in relation to the High Court, a person who is an Additional Judge of the Court;
"members of the Armed Forces" does not include persons who are not, for the time being, subject
to any law relating to the members of the Armed Forces;
"net proceeds" means, in relation to any tax or duty, the proceeds thereof, reduced by the cost of
collection, as ascertained and certified by the AuditorGeneral;
"oath" includes affirmation;
"Part" means Part of the Constitution;
"pension" means a pension, whether contributory or not, of any kind whatsoever payable to, or in
respect of, any person and includes retired pay so payable, a gratuity so payable, and any sum or
sums so payable by way of the return, with or without interest thereon or any addition thereto, of
subscriptions to a provident fund;
"person" includes any body politic or corporate;
"President" means the President of Pakistan and includes a person for the time being acting as, or
performing the functions of, the President of Pakistan and, as respects anything required to be done
under the Constitution before the commencing day, the President under the Interim Constitution of
the Islamic Republic of Pakistan;
"Property" includes any right, title or interest in property, movable or immovable, and any means
and instruments of production;
"Provincial law" means a law made by or under the authority of the Provincial Assembly;
"remuneration" includes salary and pension;
"Schedule" means Schedule to the Constitution;
"security of Pakistan" includes the safety, welfare, stability and integrity of Pakistan and of
each part of Pakistan, but shall not include public safety as such;
"service of Pakistan" means any service, post or office in connection with the affairs of the
Federation or of a Province, and includes an AllPakistan Service, service in the Armed Forces and
any other service declared to be a service of Pakistan by or under Act of
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