(i)
(ii)
"Casual prisoner", means any convicted criminal
prisoner who is not a "habitual" as hereinafter
defined;
"central prison" means any prison in which
criminal convicted prisoners are received for the
purpose of undergoing their sentences by transfer
from any other prison and in which such prisoners
are not, when committed to prison, in the first
instance ordinarily received; provided that no
prison shall be deemed to be a central prison unless
and until the Provincial Government shall have
declared it to be such;
(iii)
"compartment" means any room, workshop,
godown or other covered-in, enclosed and protected place, in a
prison, other than a cell or ward;
(iv) "Convict", means a convicted criminal prisoner;
(v)
"district prison", means any prison to which prisoners from
one or more districts are in the first instance, ordinarily
committed, and includes every prison other than a central
prison or a special prison as defined in this rule;
(vi)
"Habitual " or "habitual criminal, means—
(a) Any person convicted of an offence whose previous
conviction or convictions under Chapter XII, XVI. XVII.
or XVIII of the Pakistan Penal Code taken by themselves
or with the facts of the present case show that he habitually
commits an offence or offences punishable under any or all
of those chapters;
(b)
any person committed to or detained in prison under
section 123 read with section 110 of the Code of Criminal
Procedure;
(c)
any person convicted of any of the offences specified in (a)
above when it appears from the facts of the case, even if no
previous conviction ha$ been proved that he is by habit a
member of a gang of dacoits, or of thieves or a dealer in
slaves or in stolen property; and
(d)
any person convicted by a Court or tribunal acting outside
Pakistan of an offence which would have rendered him
liable to be classified as a habitual criminal if he had been
convicted in a Court established in Pakistan.
Explanation-For the purpose of this definition the word,
"conviction" shall include an order made under section 118, read
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