law: Banking Companies (Legal Practitioners' Clients' Account) Act, 1949
  2.Definitions.-
  In this Act, unless there is anything
  
  repugnant in the subject or context,-
  {Subs. by Act 38 of
  
  1959, s. 64 and Sch . III, for cl .
  
  (a) ( w.e.f .  10-9-1959 ).} [(a) "banking
  
  company" means any banking company as defined in section 5 of the Banking
  
  Companies Act, 1949 (1 of 1949), and includes the State Bank of India {Subs. by
  
  Act 5 of 1970, s. 20, for "and any subsidiary bank" (w.e.f . 19-7-1969).} [ a 
  
  corresponding new bank constituted under section 3 of the Banking Companies
  
  (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertaking Act, 1970 ( 5 of 1970), {Subs. by Act
  
  21 of 1976, s. 33, for certain words ( w.e.f .  26-9-1975 ).} [ a Regional
  
  Rural Bank established under section 3 of the Regional Rural Banks Act, 1976
  
  (21 of 1976), {Subs. by Act 40 of 1980, s. 20 
  ( a ) (w.e.f .  15-4-1980 ).} [
  
  a corresponding new bank constituted under section 3 of the Banking
  
  Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1980 (40 of 1980) and
  
  any subsidiary bank]]] as defined in the State Bank of
  
    India (Subsidiary Banks )
  
  Act, (38 of 1959);]
  (b) " legal practitioner " has the
  
  same meaning as in the legal Practitioners Act, 1879 (18 of 1879).