In this Act and in 4[all Punjab Acts] 5[* * *], unless there is anything repugnant in the subject context,
(1) Abet. abet , with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall have the same meaning as in the Indian Penal Code6 (XLV of 1860):
(2) Act. act , used with reference to an offence or a civil wrong, shall include a series of acts, and words which refer to acts done extend also to illegal omissions:
(3) Affidavit. affidavit shall include affirmation and declaration in the case of persons by law allowed to affirm or declare instead of swearing:
(4) Barrister. barrister shall mean a barrister of England or Ireland or member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland:
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(6) British possession. British possession shall mean any part of Her Majesty's Dominions, exclusive of the United Kingdom, and where parts of those Dominions are under both a central and a local Legislature, all parts under the central Legislature shall, for the purposes of this definition, be deemed to be one British possession:
(7) Chapter. chapter shall mean a Chapter of the Punjab Act 8[* * *] in which the word occurs:
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(9) Collector. collector shall mean the chief officer-in-charge of the revenue-administration of a district and shall include a Deputy Commissioner:
10[(10) colony
(a) In any Punjab Act passed after the commencement of Part III of the Government of India Act, 1935, 11[* * * *] shall mean any part of Her Majesty's Dominions exclusive of the British Islands, the Dominions of India and Pakistan (and before the establishment of those Dominions, British India), any Dominion as defined in the Statute of Westminster, 1931, any Province or State forming part of any of the said Dominions and British Burma; and
(b) in any Punjab Act passed before the commencement of Part III of the said Act, mean any part of Her Majesty's Dominions exclusive of the British Islands and of British India;
And in either case where parts of these Dominions are under both a central or local legislature, all parts under the central legislature shall, for the purposes of this definition, be deemed to be one colony]:
(11) Commencement. commencement used with reference to a Punjab Act 12[* * * *] shall mean the day on which the Act comes into force;
(12) Commissioner. Commissioner shall mean the chief officer-in-charge of the revenue and general administration of a division:
(13) Consular Officer. Consular Officer shall include consul-general, consul, vice-consul, consular agent, pro-consul, and any person for the time being authorized to perform the duties of consul-general, consul, vice-consul or consular agent:
(14) Deputy Commissioner. Deputy Commissioner shall mean the chief officer-in-charge of the general administration of a District:
(15) District Judge. 13[ District Judge shall mean the Judge of a principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction: but shall not include the High Court in the exercise of its ordinary or extraordinary original civil jurisdiction]:
(16) Document. document shall include any matter written expressed or described upon any substance by means of letters, figures or marks or by more than one of those means which is intended to be used, or which may be used, for the purpose of recording that matter:
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(17) Enactment. enactment shall include any provision contained in any Punjab Act15 [* * *]:
(18) Father. father in the case of any one whose personal law admits adoption shall include an adoptive father:
(19) Financial Commissioner. Financial Commissioner shall mean the Financial Commissioner of16Punjab for the time being:
(20) Financial year. financial year shall mean the year commencing on the first day of April:
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(22) Good faith. A thing shall be deemed to be done in good faith where it is in fact done honestly, whether it is done negligently or not:
(23) Government. Government or the Government shall in Government, elude the18[State] Government as well as the19[Central Government]:
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(26) Immovable property. immovable property shall include land, benefits to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth:
(27) Imprisonment. imprisonment shall mean imprisonment of either description as defined in the Indian Penal Code22 (XLV of 1860):
(28) 23***
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(30) Local authority. local authority shall mean a municipal committee, district board, body of port commissioners or other authority legally entitled to, or entrusted by the Government with, the control or management of a municipal or local fund:
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(32) Magistrate. Magistrate shall include every person exercising all or any of the powers of a Magistrate under the Code of Criminal Procedure for the time being in force26:
(33) Master (of a ship). Master , used with reference to a ship shall mean any person (except a pilot or harbour-master) having for the time being control or charge of the slip:
(34) Month. month shall mean a month reckoned according to the British calendar:
(35) Moveable property. movable property shall mean property every description except immovable property:
(36) Notification. notification shall mean a notification published under proper authority in the27[Official Gazette]:
(37) Oath. oath shall include affirmation and declaration in the case of persons by law allowed to affirm or declare instead of swearing:
(38) Offence. offence shall mean any act or omission made punishable by any law for the time being in force:
(39) Part. Part shall mean a Part of the Punjab Act28 [* * * *] in which the word occurs:
(40) Person. person shall include any company or association or body of individuals whether incorporated or not:
29[(41) Political Agent. Political Agent shall mean,
(a) in relation to any territory outside India, the principal officer, by whatever name called, representing the Central Government in such territory; and
(b) in relation to any territory in a Part B State, any officer appointed by the Central Government to exercise all or any of the powers of the Political Agent under the Act or Regulation in which the expression occurs]:
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(44) nuisance. public nuisance shall mean a public nuisance Public as defined in the32Indian Penal Code (XLV of 1860):
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34[(46) Punjab Act. Punjab Act , shall mean an Act made by the Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab in Council under the Indian Councils Acts, 1861 to 1909, or any of those Acts, or the Government of India Act, 1915, or by the Local Legislature or the Governor of the Punjab under the Government of India Act, or by the Provincial Legislature or the Governor of the Punjab35 [or by the Provincial Legislature or the Governor of East Punjab under the Government of India Act, 1935, or by the Legislature of Punjab under the Constitution]]:
(47) Registered. registered used with reference to a document shall mean registered in36[a Part A State or a Part C State] under the law for the time being in force for the registration of documents:
(48) Rule. rule shall mean a rule made in exercise of a power conferred by any enactment, and shall include a regulation made as a rule under any enactment:
(49) Schedule. schedule shall mean a schedule to the Punjab Act37 [* * * *] in which the word occurs:
(50) Scheduled District. schedule district shall mean a scheduled district as defined in the Scheduled Districts Act, 187438 (XIV of 1874):
(51) Section. section , shall mean a section of the Punjab Act37 [* * * *] in which the word occurs:
(52) Ship. ship shall include every description of vessel used in navigation not exclusively propelled by oars:
(53) Sign. sign with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall, with reference to a person who is unable to write his name, include mark , with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions':
(54) Son. son in the case of any one whose personal law permits adoption, shall include an adopted son:
(55) Sub-section. sub-section shall mean a sub-section of the section in which the word occurs:
(56) Swear. swear with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall include affirming and declaring in the case of persons by law allowed to affirm or declare instead of swearing:
(57) Vessel. vessel shall include any ship or boat or any other description of vessel used in navigation:
(58) Will. will shall include a codicil and every writing making a voluntary posthumous disposition of property:
(59) Writing. expressions referring to writing shall be, construed as including references to printing, lithography, photography and other modes of representing or reproducing words in a visible form; and
(60) Year. year shall mean a year reckoned according, to the British calendar.
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