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ACT VII OF 2014 ACT VII OF 2014 BALOCHISTAN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (PREVENTION AND PROTECTION) ACT, 2014 An Act to make provisions for protection against domestic violence. [Gazette of Balochistan, Extraordinary, 12th February, 2014] 2. Definitions.---In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-- (a) "aggrieved person" means any woman, child, man or any vulnerable person who is or has been in a domestic relationship with the accused and who alleges to have been subjected to any act of domestic violence by the accused; (b) "accused" means a person who is or has been in a domestic relationship with the aggrieved person and against whom the aggrieved person has sought any relief under this Act; (c) "child" means any person under the age of eighteen years living in a domestic relationship with the accused and includes any adopted, step or foster child; (d) "Code" means the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898); (e) "court" means the court of Sub-Divisional Magistrate having the powers of first class Magistrate; (f) "domestic relationship" means a relationship between persons who live, or have, at any point of time, lived together in a household when they are related by consanguinity, marriage, kinship, adoption, employment, domestic help or are family members living together as a joint family; (g) "domestic violence" has the same meaning as assigned to it in section 4; (h) "Family Conciliatory Committee" means the Committee for conciliation, constituted under the Balochistan Local Government Act, 2010 (Act No. V of 2010); (i) "Government" means Government of Balochistan. (j) "harassment" means any course of conduct that evokes a fear of harm to the aggrieved person; (k) "household" means a household where the aggrieved person, lives or at any stage has lived in a domestic relationship either singly or along with the accused and includes such a household whether owned or tenanted either jointly by the aggrieved person and the accused or owned and tenanted by either of them, any such household in respect of which either the aggrieved person or the accused or both jointly or singly have any right, title, interest or equity and includes such a household which may belong to the joint family of which the accused is a member, irrespective of whether the accused or the aggrieved person has right, title, interest in such a shared household. (l) "Local Government Act" means the Balochistan Local Government Act, 2010 (Act No. V of 2010); (m) "monetary relief" means a monetary relief which a, court may order under section 9; (n) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (o) "prescribed" means prescribed by the rules made under this Act; (p) "Protection Officer" means an officer appointed by the Government under section 18; (q) "Protection Committee" means a Committee constituted under section 14; (r) "Protection order" means an order granted in terms of section 8; (s) "residence order" means an order granted in terms of section 8; (t) "service provider" means any such government facility or registered voluntary organization established for the protection of aggrieved person in a household by any means including legal, medical, financial or any other assistance; and (u) "vulnerable person" means a person who is vulnerable due to old age, mental illness or handicap or physical disability or other special reason or domestic help, or employment as a domestic servant. (2) Words and phrases not defined in this Act shall have the meanings as described thereto in the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860 (Act XLV of 1860) and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, (Act V of 1898).