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Section 2
The Prisoners (Attendance in Courts) Act, 1955

Section 2. Definitions

In this Act,—

(a) "confinement in a prison"—references to confinement in a prison, by whatever form of words, include references to confinement or detention in a prison 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;

1[(c) "State Government", in relation to a Union territory, means the Administrator thereof.]

1Superscript markers show text inserted or substituted by a later amendment. The Act carries the markers without the footnotes they refer to, so they are shown without a target.