Legal glossary
“pilgrim”
Defined in 2 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
The Haj Committee Act, 2002 · s. 2
(f) "pilgrim" means a Muslim proceeding to, or returning from, Haj;
Read section 2The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 · s. 3
(26) "pilgrim" means a person making a pilgrimage and, in the case of a passenger on board a pilgrim ship, includes every person accompanying or travelling with the person making the pilgrimage; 3[(27) "pilgrimage" means pilgrimage to any holy place in the Hedjaz or to any other place declared by the Central Government to be a place of pilgrimage by notification in Official Gazette;
Read section 3