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Text, the word 'text', in its dictionary meaning, means 'subject or theme'. When an enactment amends the text of another, it amends the subject or theme of it, though sometimes it may expunge unnecessary words without altering the subject. The word 'text' is comprehensive enough to take in the subject as well as the terminology used in a statute, Jethanand Betab v. State of Delhi, AIR 1960 SC 89 (92): (1960) 1 SCR 755. (General Clause Act, 1897, s. 6A)