Legal glossary
“magistrate”
Defined in 4 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
The Extradition Act, 1962 · s. 2
(g) "magistrate" means a magistrate of the first class or a presidency magistrate; - (h) "notified order" means an order notified in the Official Gazette; - (i) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; and
Read section 2The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 · s. 2
(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;
Read section 2The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 · s. 2
(c) "Magistrate" means a Magistrate of the First class exercising jurisdiction under the Code of - Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974) in the area where the divorced woman resides;
Read section 2The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019 · s. 2
(b) "Magistrate" means a Judicial Magistrate of the first class exercising jurisdiction under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), in the area where the married Muslim woman resides; and
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