(a) "Adult" means a person belonging to a Scheduled Tribe who is not less than twenty-one years of age on such date as may be fixed in that behalf by the District Council;
(b) "Autonomous District" means a Tribal area deemed as such under paragraph 1(1) of the Sixth Scheduled to the Constitution of India, and the term "District" shall be construed accordingly;
(c) "Constitution" means the Constitution of India;
(d) "District Council" means the District Council of the Khasi Hills Autonomous District;
(e) "Execution Committee" means the Executive Committee of the District Council of Khasi Hills Autonomous District, and the terms "Chief Executive Member" and "Member of the Executive" Committee shall be construed accordingly;
(f) "Gazette" means the Meghalaya Gazette;
(g) "Governor" means the Governor of Meghalaya;
(h) "High Court" means the Gauhati High Court (High Court of Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur and Tripura;
(i) "Scheduled Tribes" means such a tribe or tribes as are specified by order of the President of India under Article 342(1) of the Constitution as modified by law made by Parliament from time to time in so far as the specification pertains to the Autonomous Districts of Meghalaya;
(j) "Village" means an entire area within the jurisdiction of the existing Sirdarships listed in Appendix I annexed and such other area within the Syiemships, Lyngdohships, Sirdarships or Wahadarships listed in the Appendix II annexed as recognised by the syiemship, lyngdohships, sirdarships or wahadarships as being an area within the jurisdiction of a Court, whose decision in appealable to the Court of the system, lyngdoh, sirdar or wahadar or Administrative Officer concerned and such other area or areas as may be declared to be so by the District Council;
(k) "Village Court" means a Village Court constituted for a village;
(l) "Syiemship, lyngdoship, sirdarship, loahadarship" means an area under the administrative jurisdiction of the syiem, lyngdoh, sirdar, wahadar, as the case may be, recognised as such by the District Council;
(m) "Khasi syiemships" means an administrative area of the Khasi Hills District known as the Khasi States prior to the commencement of the Constitution];
(n) "Administrative Officer" means an officer temporarily appointed by the Executive Committee under the provisions of the United Khasi-Jaintia Hills Autonomous District (Appointment and Succession of Chiefs and Headmen) Act, 1959, as amended, to run the administration of any Syiemship, Lyngdoship, Sirdarship of Wahadarship.
Section 2 • Khasi Hills Autonomous District (Administration of Justice) Rules, 1953
2. Definitions.
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