law: Sashastra Seema Bal Act, 2007 
  2.  Definitions.
  1.       In this
  
  Act, unless the context otherwise requires,.
  a.     
  
    "active duty", in relation to a person subject to this
  
  Act, means any duty as a member of the Force during the period in which such
  
  person is attached to, or forms part of, a unit of the Force.
                       
  
   i.        
  
    which is engaged in operations against any enemy, or
                      
  
   ii.        
  
    which is operating at a picket or engaged on patrol or other
  
  guard duty along the borders of India, and includes duty by such person during
  
  any period declared by the Central Government by order as a period of active
  
  duty with reference to any area in which any person or class of persons subject
  
  to this Act may be serving;
  a.     
  b.    
  
    "battalion" means a unit of the Force constituted as a
  
  battalion by the Central Government;
  c.     
  
    "civil offence" means an offence which is triable by a
  
  criminal court;
  d.    
  
    "civil prison" means any jail or place used for the
  
  detention of any criminal prisoner under the Prisons Act, 1894, or under any
  
  other law for the time being in force;
  e.     
  
    "commanding officer" means a Commandant or any officer
  
  for the time being in command of the unit or any separate portion of the Force
  
  to which such person belongs or is attached to and discharging his functions
  
  under this Act or the rules made there under;
  f.     
  
    "criminal court" means a court of ordinary criminal
  
  justice in any part of India constituted under the Code of Criminal Procedure,
  
  1973;
  g.    
  
    "Deputy Inspector-General" and "Additional Deputy
  
  Inspector-General" mean respectively a Deputy Inspector-General and an
  
  Additional Deputy Inspector-General of the Force appointed under section 5;
  h.     
  
    "Director-General" and "Additional
  
  Director-General" mean respectively the Director-General and an Additional
  
  Director-General of the Force appointed under section 5;
  i.      
  
    "enemy" includes all mutineers, armed rebels, armed
  
  rioters, pirates, terrorists and any person in arms against whom it is the duty
  
  of any person subject to this Act to take action;
  j.      
  
    "enrolled person" means an under-officer or other
  
  person enrolled under this Act;
  k.     
  
    "Force" means the Sashastra Seema Bal;
  l.      
  
    "Force Court" means a Court referred to in section 76;
  m.   
  
    "Force custody" means the arrest or confinement of a
  
  member of the Force under section 69;
  n.     
  
    "Inspector-General" means the Inspector-General of the
  
  Force appointed under section 5;
  o.    
  
    "Judge Attorney-General", .Additional Judge
  
  Attorney-General", "Deputy Judge Attorney-General" and
  
  "Judge Attorney" mean respectively the Judge Attorney-General, an
  
  Additional Judge Attorney-General, a Deputy Judge Attorney-General and a Judge
  
  Attorney of the Force appointed under sub-section (2 ) of section 95;
  p.    
  
    "member of the Force" means an officer, a subordinate
  
  officer, an under officer or other enrolled person;
  q.    
  
    "notification" means a notification published in the
  
  Official Gazette;
  r.      
  
    "offence" means any act or omission punishable under
  
  this Act and includes a civil offence;
  s.     
  
    "officer" means a person appointed or in pay as an
  
  officer of the Force, but does not include a subordinate officer or an under-officer;
  t.      
  
    "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this
  
  Act;
  u.     
  
    "rule" means a rule made under this Act;
  v.     
  
    "subordinate officer" means a person appointed or in
  
  pay as a Subedar Major or Inspector or Sub-Inspector and Assistant Sub-Inspector
  
  of the Force;
  w.    
  
    "superior officer", when used in relation to a person
  
  subject to this Act, means.
                       
  
   i.        
  
    any member of the Force to whose command such person is for the
  
  time being subject in accordance with the rules;
                      
  
   ii.        
  
    any officer of a higher rank or class or of a higher grade in
  
  the same class, and includes, when such person is not an officer, a subordinate
  
  officer or an under-officer of higher rank, class or grade;
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  x.     
  
    "under-officer" means a Head Constable of the Force;
  y.     
  
    "unit" includes.
                       
  
   i.        
  
    any body of officers and other members of the Force for which a
  
  separate authorised establishment exists;
                      
  
   ii.        
  
    any separate body of persons subject to this Act employed on any
  
  service and not attached to a unit as aforesaid;
                     
  
   iii.        
  
    any other separate body of persons composed wholly or partly of
  
  persons subject to this Act and specified as a unit by the Central Government.
  1.     
  
   
  2.       All
  
  words and expressions used and not defined in this Act but defined in the
  
  Indian Penal Code, the Army Act, 1950 or the National Security Guard Act, 1986,
  
  shall have the same meanings respectively assigned to them in that Code or
  
  those Acts.
  3.       In this
  
  Act, references to any law not in force in the State of Jammu and Kashmir shall
  
  be construed as references to the corresponding law in force in that State.