law: The Foreign Marriage Act, 1969 
  2.Definitions.  - 
  In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, ---
  (a) "degrees of prohibited relationship" shall have
  
  same meaning as in the Special Marriage Act, 1954 (43 of 1954);
  (b) "district", in relation to a Marriage Officer,
  
  means the area within which the duties of his office are to be discharged ;
  (c) "foreign country" means a country or place outside
  
  India, and includes a shop which is for the time belong in the territorial
  
  waters of such a country or place ;
  (d) "Marriage Officer" means a person appointed under
  
  section 3 to be a Marriage Officer;
  (e) "Official house" , in relation to a Marriage
  
  Officer, means ---
  (i) the official house of residence of the
  
  officer ;
  (ii) the office in which the business of the
  
  officer is transacted ;
  (iii) a prescribed place ; and
  (f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under
  
  this Act.