Act Info:
(1) This Act may be called the Prisoners Act, 1900.
1 [(2) It extends to the whole of India except 2 [the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in] Part B States.] 3 [***]4 [***]
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1. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for sub-section (2).
2. Substituted by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for "Part B States".
3. The word "and" rep. by Act 10 of 1914, section. 3 and Sch. II.
4. Sub-section (3) rep. by Act 10 of 1914, section. 3 and Sch. II.
Section 2 - Definitions
In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,--
(a) "Court" includes a Coroner and any officer lawfully exercising civil, criminal or revenue jurisdiction; and
(b) "prison" includes any place which has been declared by the1[State Government], by general or special order, to be a subsidiary jail;
2[(c) "States" means the territories to which this Act extends.]
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1. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for "Provincial Government".
2. Substituted by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for clause (c) which had been Inserted by the A.O. 1950.