2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) “instrument” includes every document by which any right or liability is, or purports to be, created, transferred, modified, limited, extended, suspended, extinguished or recorded; (b) “legal practitioner” means any advocate or attorney of the Supreme Court ¹[* * *] or any pleader authorised under any law for the time being in force to practise in any Court of law; (c) “notary” means a person appointed as such under this Ordinance: Provided that for a period of six months from the commencement of this Ordinance it shall include also a person who, before such commencement, was appointed a notary public by the Master of Faculties in England, and is, immediately before such commencement, in practice as a notary in any part of ²[in the territory now comprised in Bangladesh];(d) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Ordinance; (e) “Register” means a Register of Notaries to be maintained under section 4.