Legal glossary
“corrective institution”
Defined in 1 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 · s. 2
"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;
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