2 Interpretation 5. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, :“People’s administrator”, means the person who assumes chairmanship in any native, people’s or local administration, having the function of preserving security and order; “Inquiry”, includes all the procedure adopted, before trial, for the detection of the facts relating to the criminal suit; “Preliminary inquiry”, means the inquiry which takes place, before the initiation of the criminal suit for ascertaining the truth as to suspicion of an offence; “Charge”, means accusation of the commission of an offence, and includes any of the heads of a compound charge; “Limits of jurisdiction”, mean the local limits, within which any criminal organ exercises its powers in the ordinary conditions; “Criminal suit”, means launching criminal proceedings, against any person, by reason of commission, by him, of an act, which may constitute an offence, “Suspicion”, means the suspicion of commission of an offence, before preferring to charge, “Policeman”, means any of the members of the police of any rank, or whoever may be charged with the duties thereof, “Complaint”, means an oral, or written allegation, presented by a person, against whom or within the limits of whose responsibility, the offence has been committed; “Officer in charge”, includes any policeman for the time being in charge of the police station; “Initiation of the criminal suit”, means recording the criminal suit and commencement of inquiry therein; “Magistrate”, means any Magistrate, in any competent criminal court;