1. Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Andhra State Act, 1953.
(2) This Part and sections 43, 54, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66 and 69 shall come into force at once, and
all other provisions of this Act shall come into force on the 1st day of October, 1953.
2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “appointed day” means the 1st day of October, 1953;
(b) “article” means an article of the Constitution.
(c) “Assembly constituency”, “Council constituency” and “Parliamentary constituency” have
the same meaning as in the Representation of the People Act, 1950; (43 of 1950);
(d) “law” includes any enactment, ordinance, regulation, order, bye-law, rule, scheme,
notification or other instrument having the force of law in the whole or in any part of the State of
Madras or Mysore as constituted immediately before the appointed day;
(e) “Order” means an Order published in the Official Gazette;
(f) “sitting member” in relation to either House of Parliament or of the Legislature of a State,
means a person who immediately before the appointed day is a member of that House;
(g) “transferred territory” means the territory added to the State of Mysore by
sub-section (1) of section 4.