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Section 2
The Transfer of Prisoners Act, 1950

Section 2. Definitions

In this Act,—

(a) "court" includes any officer lawfully exercising civil, criminal or revenue jurisdiction;

1 [(b) "Government" or "State Government", in relation to a Part C State, means the administrator thereof;]

(c) "prison" includes any place which has been declared by State Government, by general or special order, to be a subsidiary jail.

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.