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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;