General definitions

In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, the following expressions shall have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say: (1) "Abet", with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall have the same meaning as in the Indian Penal Code (1860, XLV of 1860). (3) "Affidavit" shall include affirmation and declaration in the case of persons by law allowed to affirm or declare instead of swearing. (4) "Barrister" shall mean a barrister of England or Ireland or a member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland. (5) "District Judge" shall mean the Judge of a principal civil court of original jurisdiction, but shall not include a High Court in the exercise of its ordinary or extraordinary original civil jurisdiction. (6) "Document" shall include any matter written, expressed or described upon any substance by means of letters, figures or marks, or by more than one of those means, which is intended to be used, or which may be used, for the purpose of recording that matter. (7) "Enactment" shall include a Regulation (as hereinafter defined) and any Regulation of the Bengal, Madras or Bombay Code and shall also include any provision contained in any Act or in any such Regulation as aforesaid. (8) "Financial year" shall mean the year commencing on the first day of April. (9) "Good faith" - a thing shall be deemed to be done in "good faith" where it is in fact done honestly, whether it is done negligently or not. (10) "Local authority" shall include a municipal committee, district board, body of port commissioners or other authority legally entitled to, or entrusted by the Government with, the control or management of a municipal or local fund. (11) "Magistrate" shall include every person exercising all or any of the powers of a Magistrate under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (V of 1898) for the time being in force. (12) "Moveable property" shall mean property of every description, except immoveable property. (13) "Notification" shall mean: (a) a notification in the official Gazette by the State Government or by any person or authority by law empowered to publish the same in the official Gazette. (14) "Oath" shall include affirmation and declaration in the case of persons by law allowed to affirm or declare instead of swearing. (15) "Part" shall mean a part of the Act in which the word occurs. (16) "Person" shall include any company or association or body of individuals, whether incorporated or not. (17) "Public nuisance" shall mean a public nuisance as defined in the Indian Penal Code (1860, XLV of 1860). (18) "Registered", used with reference to a document shall mean registered in any part of India under the law for the time being in force for the registration of documents. (19) "Sign" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall with reference to a person who is unable to write his name, include "mark" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions. (20) "Son" in the case of any one whose personal law permits adoption, shall include an adopted son. (21) "State Government" shall mean: (a) in relation to anything done before the commencement of the Constitution, the authority or person authorized at the relevant date to administer executive government in the corresponding province, or as the case may be, the Chief Commissioner of the Chief Commissionership; (b) in relation to anything done or to be done after the commencement of the Constitution, the Governor of the State. (22) "Sub-section" shall mean a sub-section of the section in which the word occurs. (23) "Writing" shall include references to printing, lithography, photography and other modes of representing or reproducing words in a visible form. (24) "Year" shall mean a year reckoned according to the British calendar.