ABI Act 2

Section 2 · Definitions

- In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context-

(a)

"adolescent offender" means any person not less than fourteen and not more than twenty-one years of age who has been convicted of any offence punishable with imprisonment but not punishable with death or who having been ordered to give security under Section 106 or Section 118 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, has failed to do so or who, when the bond has been cancelled under Section 126-A of that Code, has failed to give fresh security;

(b)

"Borstal Institution" means a place in which adolescent offenders may be detained under this Act and given such industrial, vocational, general education and cultural training and other instructions and subjected to such disciplinary and moral influences as will be conducive to their reformation;

(c)

"detained" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions means detained in a Borstal Institution ;

(d)

"Director" mean a Director of a Borstal Institution appointed under sub-section (1) of Section 4;

(e)

"inmate" means any person ordered to be detained under this Act;

(f)

"officer" means an officer of a Borstal Institution appointed in such institution as may be prescribed and includes the Director and the Superintendent of Borstal Institution appointed under Section 4 ;

(g)

"prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act ;

(h)

"Superintendent" means a Superintendent of a Borstal Institution appointed under sub-section (2) of Section 4 ;

(i)

"visiting committee" means a visiting committee appointed under sub-section (3) of Section 4.

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