Speaker or Deputy Speaker, of the National or a Provincial Assembly, Minister of the Federal or a Provincial Government, Minister of State or Deputy Minister of the Federal Government, Deputy Minister or Parliamentary Secretary of a Provincial Government. Judge of the Supreme Court or a High Court, or Comptroller and Auditor-General; and “Servant of Pakistan” shall be construed accordingly;
"Special Areas” means the areas of the Province of West Pakistan which immediately before the commencement of the Establishment of West Pakistan Act. 1955, were-
(a) the tribal areas of Baluchistan, the Punjab and the North-West Frontier, and
(b) the States of Amb, Chitral, Dir and Swat;
"Sub-clause” means a sub-clause of the clause in which the expression occurs;
"taxation” includes the imposition of any tax or impost, whether general local or special and “tax” shall be construed accordingly;
"tax on income” includes a tax in the nature of an excess profits tax, or business profits tax.
(2) Where under the Constitution something is required to be specified it shall be specified, if no specifying authority has been prescribed, by the President.
(3) For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that a session of the National or a Provincial Assembly shall be taken to commence at the beginning of the first meeting of the Assembly after a general election or prorogation and to end with the prorogation or dissolution of the Assembly, and references in the Constitution to an Assembly's being in session shall be construed accordingly.
219. Application of General Clauses Act, 1897.- (1) Unless the context otherwise requires, the General Clauses Act, 1897, shall apply for the interpretation of the Constitution as it applies for the interpretation of a Central Act, as if the Constitution were a Central Act.
(2) For the application of the General Clauses Act, 1897, to the interpretation of the Constitution, the Acts repealed by the Constitution shall be deemed to be Central Acts.
Chapter vii-Commencement And Repeal
220. Commencement. This Article and Articles 218, 219 and 222 shall come into force at once, and the remaining provisions of the Constitution shall come into force on the Constitution Day.
221. Repeal.- The Government of India Act, 1935, and the Indian Independence Act, 1947, together with all enactments amending or supplementing those Acts, are hereby repealed:
