IPC §20 → BNS §2

BNS Section 2(5) carries the same definitional set under the renamed label Court. The operative phrase — a Judge who is empowered by law to act judicially alone, or a body of Judges which is empowered by law to act judicially as a body, when such Judge or body of Judges is acting judicially — is textually identical apart from punctuation. The IPC illustration is not reproduced.

IPC Section 20 defined Court of Justice as a Judge empowered by law to act judicially alone, or a body of Judges so empowered, when acting judicially. BNS Section 2(5) carries the same definitional set under the renamed label Court. The operative inclusion clause is textually identical apart from punctuation. Two observable text-level shifts: (i) the defined term is renamed from Court of Justice to Court — a label change at the defined-term level with an identical definitional body; (ii) the IPC illustration (Panchayat under Regulation VII, 1816 of the Madras Code) is removed, which strips out an explicit interpretive aid even though the underlying set is unchanged. The denotes → means shift is terminology normalisation in this provision (the IPC structure was already functionally exhaustive), not a scope shift, and is recorded here in prose only.