Special Protection Group Act,1988
Act No : 34
Section :
Definitions.
2. Definitions. In this Act, unless the context otherwise
requires,--
(a) "active duty" in relation to a member of the Group means
any duty as such member during the period when he is posted to
physically protect the Prime Minister of India and the members of
3*["his immediate family or a former Prime Minister and the
members of his immediate family"] wherever he or they may be;
(b) "Director" means the Director of the Group appointed
under sub-section (1) of section 5;
(c) "Group" means the Special Protection Group constituted
under section 4;
(d) "member of the Group" means a person who has been
appointed to the Group by the prescribed authority whether before
or after the commencement of this Act;
(e) "members of immediate family" means wife, husband,
children and parents;
(f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this
Act;
(g) "proximate security" means protection provided from
close quarters, during journey by road, rail, aircraft,
watercraft or on foot or any other means of transport and shall
include the places of functions, engagements, residence or halt
and shall comprise ring round teams, isolation cordons, the
sterile zone around, and the rostrum and access control to the
person or members of his immediate family;
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1 1-8-1988: vide Notification No. S.O. 735(E), dated 1-8-1988,
Gazette of India, extraordinary, 1988, Pt. II; sec. 3(ii).
2 Subs by Act 48 of 1991, S.2
3 Subs. by S.3 ibid.
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(h) all words and expressions used and not defined in this
Act but defined in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860.) shall have
the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Code.
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