Definitions

(2) "District Magistrate" means in the case of the presidency-town, the Commissioner of Police; (3) "Government" means the State Government; (4) "habitual offender" means a person who, before or after the commencement of this Act, has been sentenced to a substantive term of imprisonment, such sentence not having been set aside in appeal or revision, on not less than three occasions, for any one or more of the scheduled offences each of the subsequent sentences having been passed in respect of an offence committed after the passing of the sentence on the previous occasion; Explanation.-The passing of an order requiring a person to give security for good behaviour with reference to section 110 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974) shall be deemed to amount to the passing of a sentence of substantive imprisonment within the meaning of this clause. (5) "notification" means a notification published in the Fort St. George Gazette; (6) "notified offender" means a habitual offender in respect of whom a notification has been issued under section 3 and is in force; (7) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act ; (7-A) 'scheduled offence' means an offence specified in the Schedule; (8) "settlement" means a settlement established or deemed to be established under section 8.