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111 this Act, unless Ihe cOlllex! oU! ~ rwise requires,- (0) "child" means iii. person who, if a male, has not completed twenty-one years of age, and if a female, has not completed eighteen years of age; (b) "child marriage" mcans a marriage to which either of the contracting parties is 8 child; (c) "contracting party", in relation 10 a marriage, means either ofUie parties whose marriage is or is about to be tt>ereby IOlcmnised; (d) ''Child Marriage Prohibition Officer" includes the Child Marriage Prohibition Officer appointed under sub·section (I) of section 16; (e) "district GOon" means, in any area for which a FamilyCowt establis.hed under s«:tion 3 of the Family Courts Act, 1984 exists, such Family Court, and in any area for 66 of 1914 which there is no Family Court but a city civil coon exists, that court and in any oth~ 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 Gaz..ettc, as having jurisdiction in respect ort~e matters dealt with in this Act; V) "minor" means a person who. under the provisions oflhe Majority Act, 1875 9 of 117' IS to be deemed not to have attained his majority.