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Section 301: Definitions.

The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023Central Act · Act 46 of 2023

In this Chapter,---

(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;

(ii) any reformatory, Borstal institution or other institution of a like nature.

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ActThe Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
Section301
Marginal noteDefinitions.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it1

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