“child”

POCSO · s. 2

The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012

(d) "child" means any person below the age of eighteen years;

The Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016. · s. 2

(ia) "child" means a person who has not completed eighteen years of age;]

The Delhi Primary Education Act, 1960 · s. 2

(e) "child" means a boy or girl within such age group, not being less than six or more than fourteen, as may be specified in a declaration made under section 4;

The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. · s. 2

(f) "child" means an individual who has not completed the age of eighteen years;

The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 · s. 2

(aa) "child" means a person who has not completed the age of sixteen years;] 5[8[(b)]"corrective institution" means an institution, by whatever name called (being an institution established or licensed as such under section 21), in which[9] [persons], who are in need of correction, may be detained under this Act, and includes a shelter where[10] [undertrials] may be kept in pursuance of this Act;] 11* * * * * 12 [(c) "magistrate" means a magistrate specified in the second column of the Schedule as being competent to exercise the powers conferred by the section in which the expression occours and which is specified in the first column of the Schedule;] 7 [(ca) "major" means a person who has completed the age of eighteen years;

The Orphanages and other Charitable Homes (Supervision and Control) Act, 1960 · s. 2

(c) "child" means a boy or girl who has not completed the age of eighteen years;

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 · s. 2

(c) "child" means a male or female child of the age of six to fourteen years;

The Women’s and Children’s Institutions (Licensing) Act, 1956. · s. 2

(a) “child” means a boy or girl who has not completed the age of eighteen years;

The Mines Act, 1952, 35 of 1952 (Rep., Act 37 of 2020) · s. 2 · Repealed or not in force

(e) "child" means a person who has not completed his fifteenth year; (/) "day" means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at midnight; (g) "district magistrate" means, in a presidency-town, the person appointed by the Central Government to perform the duties of a district magistrate under this Act in that town; ( 155 ) 901 G. of I. ^ THE GAZETTE OF INDIA BXT11A0EDINARY [PAUT II :— - - = — =^==\