.In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,

[* * *] [Clause (a) omitted by Act 33 of 1969, Section 29 (w.e.f. 31.8.1969).]

(b) degrees of prohibited relationshipa man and any of the persons mentioned in Part I of the First Schedule and a woman and any of the persons mentioned in Part II of the said Schedule are within the degrees of prohibited relationship;

(a) relationship by half or uterine blood as well as by full blood;

(b) illegitimate blood relationship as well as legitimate;

(c) relationship by adoption as well as by blood;

(d) district, in relation to a Marriage Officer, means the area for which he is appointed as such under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 3;

(e) [ district Court means, in any area for which there is a City Civil Court, that Court, and in any other area, the principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction and includes any other Civil Court which may be specified by the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette as having jurisdiction in respect of the matters dealt with in this Act.] [Substituted by Act 68 of 1976, Section 20 (w.e.f. 27.5.1976).]

(f) prescribed means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(g) [ State Government, in relation to a Union territory, means the administrator thereof.] [Substituted by the Adaptation of Laws (No.3) Order, 1956.]