law: The Andhra Pradesh reorganization Act, 2014
  2.  Definitions.
  In this act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
  a.    "appointed
  
  day" means the day which the central government may, by notification in the
  
  official gazette, appoint;
  b.    "article"
  
  means an article of the constitution;
  c.    "assembly
  
  constituency", "council constituency" and "parliamentary constituency" have the
  
  same meanings as in the representation of the people act, 1950;
  d.    "Election
  
  Commission" means the Election Commission appointed by the President under
  
  article 324;
  e.    "existing
  
  State of Andhra Pradesh" means the State of Andhra Pradesh as existing
  
  immediately before the appointed day;
  f.    "law"
  
  includes any enactment, ordinance, regulation, order, bye-law, rule, scheme,
  
  notification or other instrument having, immediately before the appointed day,
  
  the force of law in the whole or in any part of the existing State of Andhra
  
  Pradesh;
  g.    "notified
  
  order" means an order published in the Official Gazette;
  h.    "population
  
  ratio", in relation to the States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, means the
  
  ratio of 58.32 : 41.68 as per 2011 Census;
  i.    "sitting
  
  member", in relation to either House of Parliament or of the Legislature of the
  
  existing State of Andhra Pradesh, means a person who immediately before the
  
  appointed day, is a member of that House;
  j.    "successor
  
  State", in relation to the existing State of Andhra Pradesh, means the State of
  
  Andhra Pradesh or the State of Telangana, as the case may be;
  k.    "transferred
  
  territory" means the territory which on the appointed day is transferred from
  
  the existing State of Andhra Pradesh to the State of Telangana;
  l.    "treasury"
  
  includes a sub-treasury; and
  m.    any
  
  reference to a district, mandal, tehsil, taluk or other territorial division of
  
  the existing State of Andhra Pradesh shall be construed as a reference to the
  
  area comprised within that territorial division on the appointed day.