Legal glossary
“mental retardation”
Defined in 2 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
The National Trust for Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities Act, 1999 · s. 2
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Read section 2The Rehabilitation Council of India Act, 1992 · s. 2
(h) "mental retardation" means a condition of arrested or incomplete development of mind of a person which is specially characterised by sub-normality of intelligence;
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