First Schedule · Order 16A · Rule 1
CPC Order 16A, Rule 1: Definitions
¶1. Definitions.—In this Order,—
(a) “detained” includes detained under any law providing for preventive detention;
(b) “prison” includes—
(i) any place which has been declared by the State Government, by general or special order, to be a subsidiary jail; and
(ii) any reformatory, borstal institution or other institution of a like nature.
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