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child

Defined in 19 provisions, side by side
Section 2(f), DPDP ActPartially commenced
The words as enacted

"child" means an individual who has not completed the age of eighteen years;

No scope words printed.

The words as enacted

"child" means a person who has not completed eighteen years of age

Scope words as printed: “In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—”. This text from 18 March 1925.

The words as enacted

"child" means a person who has not completed eighteen years of age

Scope words as printed: “In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—”. This text from 12 March 1960.

The words as enacted

"child" means a person who has not completed eighteen years of age

Scope words as printed: “In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—”. This text from 16 October 1982.

The words as enacted

"child" means a person who has not completed eighteen years of age

Scope words as printed: “In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—”. This text from 14 December 1988.

The words as enacted

"child" means a person who has not completed eighteen years of age

Scope words as printed: “In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—”. This text from 3 May 1988.

The words as enacted

"child" means a person who has not completed eighteen years of age

Scope words as printed: “In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—”. This text from 2 June 1990.

The words as enacted

"child" means a person who has not completed eighteen years of age

Scope words as printed: “In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—”. This text from 6 March 1993.

The words as enacted

"child" means a person who has not completed eighteen years of age

Scope words as printed: “In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—”. This text from 24 November 1993.

The words as enacted

"child" means a person who has not completed eighteen years of age

Scope words as printed: “In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—”. This text from 8 January 2003.

The words as enacted

"child" means a person who has not completed eighteen years of age

Scope words as printed: “In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—”. This text from 13 July 2006.

The words as enacted

"child" means a person who has not completed eighteen years of age

Scope words as printed: “In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—”. This text from 4 May 2016.

The words as enacted

"child" means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age or such age as may be specified in the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, whichever is more

Scope words as printed: “In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—”. This text from 1 September 2016.

The words as enacted

"child" means a person who has not completed his fifteenth year of age

Scope words as printed: “In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,—”. This text from 1 April 1949.

The words as enacted

"child" means a person who has not completed eighteen years of age

Scope words as printed: “In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— [...]”. This text from 15 January 2016.

The words as enacted

"child" means any person below the age of eighteen years

Scope words as printed: “(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— [...]”. This text from 14 November 2012.

Section 2, BNS[S10NMH]Partially commenced
The words as enacted

"child" means any person below the age of eighteen years

Scope words as printed: “In this Sanhita, unless the context otherwise requires,— [...]”. This text from 1 July 2024.

The words as enacted

"child" means a person who, if a male, has not completed twenty-one years of age, and if a female, has not completed eighteen years of age

Scope words as printed: “In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—”. This text from 1 November 2007.

The words as enacted

"child" means a male or female child of the age of six to fourteen years

Scope words as printed: “In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— [...]”. This text from 1 April 2010.

Used in the definitions of 3 other terms
Data PrincipalSection 2, DPDP ActS10MZ3kidnappingSection 137(1), BNSjuvenileSection 2, JJ ActS105JQ
Appears in 45 instruments