(m) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
(n) "offence" means any act of omission made punishable by any law for the time being in force and includes any act in respect of which a complaint may be made under section 20 of the Cattletrespass Act, 1871;
(o) "officer in charge of a police station" includes, when the officer in charge of the police station is absent from the station-house or unable from illness or other cause to perform his duties, the police officer present at the station-house who is next in rank to such officer and is above the rank of constable or, when the State Government so directs, any other police officer so present;
(p) "place" includes a house, building, tent, vehicle and vessel;
(q) "pleader", when used with reference to any proceeding in any Court, means a person authorised by or under any law for the time being in force, to practise in such Court, and includes any other person appointed with the permission of the Court to act in such proceeding;
(r) "police report" means a report forwarded by a police officer to a Magistrate under sub-section (2) of section 173;
(s) "police report" means a report forwarded by a police officer or specially by the State Government, to be a police station, and includes any local area specified by the State Government in this behalf;
(t) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Code;
(u) "Public Prosecutor" means any person appointed under section 24, and includes any person acting under the directions of a Public Prosecutor;
(v) "sub-division" means a sub-division of a district;
(w) "summons-case" means a case relating to an offence, and not being a warrant-case;
(x) "warrant-case" means a case relating to an offence punishable with death imprisonment for life or imprisonment for a term exceeding two years;
(y) words and expressions used herein and not defined but defined in the Indian Penal Code have the mecanings respectively assigned to them in that Code.
3. (I) In this Code,−
(a) any reference, without any qualifying words, to a Magistrate, shall be construed, unless the context otherwise requires,−
(i) in relation to an area outside a metropolitan area, as a reference to a Judicial Magistrate;
(ii) in relation to a metropolitan area, as a reference to a Metropolitan Magistrate;
