Section 19: Definitions. In this Ordinance, unless the subject or context otherwise requires

19. Definitions. In this Ordinance, unless the subject or context otherwise requires___ (a) the expression “prison” includes a central, district or subsidiary jail, a judicial lock‑up, a police lock‑up, and every place which is used as a place of detention for persons who have been arrested or detained under any law for the time being in force; (b) the expression “prisoner” includes every person who is detained in a prison by order of a competent authority; (c) the expression “transferable prisoner” means any Hindu, including any member of a Scheduled Caste, or any Sikh who is in custody in any prison in Pakistan under lawful orders of a duly empowered Court or other authority and who is willing to be transferred to 1* * * India under the provisions of Part II; (d) the expression “repatriated prisoner” means a member of any of the classes specified in the first column of the Schedule who being in custody in a prison or other place of detention in a Province or State specified in the second column of the said Schedule is conveyed and delivered by a duly authorised official of 1* * * India or of the Government of any Province thereof or of any State that has acceded thereto in compliance with the orders of such Government to an official of 1* * * Pakistan or of the Government, of any Province thereof; and (e) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Ordinance. 1Omitted by A.O., 1961, Art. 2 and Sch. (with effect from the 23rd March, 1956). 2Subs. by F.A.O., 1975.

Effective date: 1948-01-01

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