Section 2 of JJ Act : Section 2: Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,

1. "abandoned child" means a child deserted by his biological or adoptive parents or guardians, who has been declared as abandoned by the Committee after due inquiry;
2. "adoption" means the process through which the adopted child is permanently separated from his biological parents and becomes the lawful child of his adoptive parents with all the rights, privileges and responsibilities that are attached to a biological child;
3. "adoption regulations" means the regulations framed by the Authority and notified by the Central Government in respect of adoption;
4. "administrator" means any district official not below the rank of Deputy Secretary to the State, on whom magisterial powers have been conferred;
5. "aftercare" means making provision of support, financial or otherwise, to persons, who have completed the age of eighteen years but have not completed the age of twenty-one years, and have left any institutional care to join the mainstream of the society;
6. "authorised foreign adoption agency" means a foreign social or child welfare agency that is authorised by the Central Adoption Resource Authority on the recommendation of their Central Authority or Government department of that country for sponsoring the application of non-resident Indian or overseas citizen of India or persons of Indian origin or foreign prospective adoptive parents for adoption of a child from India;
7. "Authority" means the Central Adoption Resource Authority constituted under section 68;
8. "begging means" -
   1. soliciting or receiving alms in a public place or entering into any private premises for the purpose of soliciting or receiving alms, under any pretence;
   2. exposing or exhibiting with the object of obtaining or extorting alms, any sore, wound, injury, deformity or disease, whether of himself or of any other person or of an animal;
9. "best interest of child" means the basis for any decision taken regarding the child, to ensure fulfilment of his basic rights and needs, identity, social well-being and physical, emotional and intellectual development;
10. "Board" means a Juvenile Justice Board constituted under section 4;
11. "Central Authority" means the Government department r

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