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Definitions.- (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "Inter-caste marriage" means a marriage between persons belonging to two different castes or sub-castes; (b) “Social and economic boycott” includes all such acts as are calculated to lead to the boycott or enforcement of social or economic sanctions and includes the following acts, namely:- (i) bringing pressure on the couple or their families or relatives to leave the village or area of residence concerned; (ii) a refusal to permit a person to render to other person or receive from him any customary service or to abstain from social relations that one will maintain with other person or to isolate him from others; (iii) indulging in any conduct which will impede or is likely to impede, access to markers, community facilities, placed of worship or any other necessities of life; (iv) divesting or dispossessing the couple or their families of any land or property belonging to them or imposing of fine or penalty of any kind; (v) a refusal to deal with, work for hire or do business; (vi) to deny opportunities including access to services or contractual opportunities for rendering service for consideration: or to refuse to do anything on the terms on which things would be commonly done in the ordinary course of business; or (vii) to abstain from any professional or business relations; (viii) to refuse to do anything on the terms on which things would be commonly done in the ordinary course of business; (ix) to abstain from the professional or business relations that one would maintain with other person; (x) to abstain from lending loan or credit; and (xi) to refuse admission in school. (2) Words and expressions used but not defined in this Act and defined in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhitha, 2023 (Central Act 45 of 2023) or Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhitha, 2023 (Central Act 46 of 2023) shall have the meanings assigned to them respectively in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhitha, 2023(Central Act 45 of 2023) or Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhitha, 2023(Central Act 46 of 2023).