CHAPTER ONE INTERPRETATION ARTICLE 1 Interpretation 1. In this Treaty, except where the context otherwise requires - "Act of the Community" means an Act of the Community in accordance with this Treaty; “Audit Commission” means the Audit Commission established by Article 134 of this Treaty; "Assembly" means the East African Legislative Assembly established by Article 9 of this Treaty; “Attorney General” means the Attorney General of a Partner State; “Bill” means a Bill of the East African Legislative Assembly; “civil society” means a realm of organised social life that is voluntary, self generating, self-supporting, autonomous from the state, and bound by a legal set of shared rules; “Clerk of the Assembly” means the Clerk of the East African Legislative Assembly appointed under Article 48 of this Treaty; "common carrier" includes a person or an undertaking engaged in the business of providing services for the carriage of goods and passengers for hire and operating as such under the laws of a Partner State; "common external tariff" means an identical rate of tariff imposed on goods imported from third countries; "Common Market" means the Partner States' markets integrated into a single market in which there is free movement of capital, labour, goods and services; "common standard travel document" means a passport or any other valid travel document establishing the identity of the holder, issued by or on behalf of the Partner State of which he or she is a citizen and shall also include inter-state passes; 4