Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
26th October, 2006, vide notification No. S.O. 1776(E), dated by 17th October, 2006, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii). 4 (n) “Protection Officer” means an officer appointed by the State Government under sub-section (1) of section 8; (o) “protection order” means an order made in terms of section 18; (p) “residence order” means an order granted in terms of sub-section (1) of section 19; (q) “respondent” means any adult male 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: Provided that an aggrieved wife or female living in a relationship in the nature of a marriage may also file a complaint against a relative of the husband or the male partner; (r) “service provider” means an entity registered under sub-section (1) of section 10; (s) “shared household” means a household where the person aggrieved lives or at any stage has lived in a domestic relationship either singly or along with the respondent and includes such a house hold whether owned or tenanted either jointly by the aggrieved person and the respondent, or owned or tenanted by either of them in respect of which either the aggrieved person or the respondent 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 respondent is a member, irrespective of whether the respondent or the aggrieved person has any right, title or interest in the shared household; (t) “shelter home” means any shelter home as may be notified by the State Government to be as helter home for the purposes of this Act. CHAPTER II DOMESTIC VIOLENCE