Section 2 — Definitions.

2. Definitions.- (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:-  

(a) "Code" means the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 

1898); 

(b) "corrective settlement" means any place established, 

approved or certified as a corrective settlement under section 

14;  

(c) "District Magistrate" means a District Magistrate appointed 

under section 10 of the Code;  

(d) "habitual offender" means any person who since his attaining 

the age of eighteen years,- 

(i) during any consecutive period (whether before or after 

the commencement of this Act, or partly before and 

partly after such commencement) of five years, has 

been sentenced on conviction, on not less than three 

occasions, to a substantive term of imprisonment for 

one or more of the scheduled offences committed on 

separate occasions, being offences which are not so 

connected together as to form parts of the same 

transaction; and  

(ii) such sentence has not been reversed in appeal or 

revision:  

Provided that in computing the consecutive period of 

five years aforesaid, any period spent in jail either under a 

sentence of imprisonment or under detention shall not be 

taken into account;  

(e) "Government" means the Government of Himachal Pradesh; 

(f)  "notification" means a notification published in the Official 

Gazette, under the proper authority;  

(g) "Official Gazette" means the Himachal Pradesh Rajpatra;  

(h) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;  

(i) "registered offender" means a habitual offender registered or 

re-registered under this Act;  

(j) "scheduled offence" means an offence specified in the 

Schedule or an offence analogous thereto;  

(k) "Superintendent of Police" means the Superintendent of 

Police and includes any person appointed by the Government 

to perform the duties of a Superintendent of Police under this 

Act. 

(2) Words and expressions used but not defined in this Act shall have 

the meanings assigned to them in the Code. 

 



THE HIMACHAL PRADESH HABITUAL OFFENDERS ACT, 1969 4

CHAPTER II 

REGISTRATION OF HABITUAL OFFENDERS AND 

RESTRICTION OF THEIR MOVEMENTS