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(j) "High Court." 2["High Court" means the highest Court of criminal appeal or revision for a
province, 3[and the Islamabad Capital Territory]:
(k) "Inquiry." "Inquiry" includes every inquiry other than a trial conducted under this Code by a
Magistrate or Court.
(l) "Investigation." "Investigation" includes all the proceedings under this Code for the collection
of evidence conducted by a policeofficer or by any person (other than a Magistrate) who is
authorised by a Magistrate in this behalf :
(m) "Judicial Proceeding." "judicial proceeding" includes any proceeding in the course of which
evidence is or may be legally taken on oath :
4[ma) "Magistrate" means a Judicial Magistrate and includes a Special Judicial Magistrate
appointed under sections 12 and 14;]
(n) "Noncognizable offence." "Noncognizable case." "Noncognizable offence" means an
offence for, and "noncognizable case" means a case in, which a policeofficer, 5* * *, may not
arrest with out warrant :
(o) "Offence." "Offence" means any act or omission made punishable by any law for the time being
in force; it also includes any act in respect of which a complaint may be made under Section 20
of the Cattletrespass Act, 1871 (I of 1871) :
(p) "Officer incharge of a policestation." "Officer incharge of a policestation" includes, when
the officer incharge of the policestation is absent from the stationhouse or unable from illness
or other cause to perform his duties, the policeofficer present at the stationhouse who is next in
rank to such officer and is above the rank of constable or, when the 6[Provincial Government]
so directs, any other policeofficer so present:
(q) "Place." "place" includes also a house, building, tent and vessel :
(r) "Pleader." "pleader," used with reference to any proceeding in any Court, means a pleader 7[or
a mukhtar] authorised under any law 8for the time being in force to practise in such Court, and
includes (1) an advocate, a vakil and an attorney of a High Court so authorised, and (2) any 9* *
other person appointed with the permission of the court to act in such proceeding :
1 Clause (i) defining “European British subject” which was subs. by the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1923 (12 of 1923), s.2. (1), for the original clause (i) has been omitted by the Criminal Law
(Extinction of Discriminatory Privileges) Act, 1949 (2 of 1950), Sch.
2 Subs. by A.O., 1964, Art. 2 and Sch. for Clause (j) which had been subs. by Act 2 of 1950, Sch., for the original clause, as amended from time to time.
3 Added by P.O. 70 and 07 Art 17.
4 Ins. by ord. 37 of 2001, s. 3 (w.e.f. 1482001).
5 The words “within or without a presidencytown” omitted by A.O., 1949, Sch.
6 Subs. by A.O., 1937, for “L.G.”.
7 Ins. by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Further Amendment) Act, 1923 (35 of 1923), s.2.
8 See the Legal Practitioners Act, 1846 (1 of 1846); the Legal Practitioners Act, 1853 (20 of 1853); the Legal Practitioners Act, 1879 (18 of 1879); the Legal Practitioners Act, 1884 (09 of 1884); the
Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Act, 1908 (1 of 1908) ; and Act XXXV of 1973.
In Baluchistan, see s. 20 (1) (c) of the Sch. to the British Baluchistan Criminal Justice Regulation, 1896 (8 of 1896); in the N.W.F.P., see s.9 of the N.W.F.P. Law and Justice Regulation , 1901 (7 of
1901) and the rules issued under that section in Gazette of India, 1902, Pt. II, p.5.
9 The words "Mukhtar or" rep. by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Further Amendment) Act, 1923 (35 of 1923), s.2.
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