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Definitions In this Act--

1. (1) "prison" means any jail or place used permanently or temporarily under the general or special orders of '[the Government] for the detention of prisoners, and includes all lands and buildings appurtenant thereto, but does not include--
   • (a) any place for the confinement of prisoners who are exclusively in the custody of the police ;
   • (b) any place specially appointed by '[the Government ] under section 541 of the Code of Criminal Procedure ;
   • (c) any place which has been declared by '[the Government], by general or special order, to be a subsidiary jail ;
2. (2) "criminal prisoner" means any prisoner duly committed to custody under the writ, warrant or order of any Court or authority exercising criminal jurisdiction, or by order of a Court-martial ;
3. (3) "convicted criminal prisoner" means any criminal prisoner under sentence of a Court or Court-martial, and includes a person detained in prison under the provisions of Chapter VIII of the Code of Criminal Procedure, or under the Prisoners Act, 1977 ;
4. (4) "civil prisoner" means any prisoner who is not a criminal prisoner ;
5. (5) "remission system" means the rules for the time being in force regulating the award of marks to and the consequent shortening of sentences of prisoners in jails ;
6. (6) "history-ticket" means the ticket exhibiting such information as is required in respect of each prisoner by this Act or the rules thereunder ;
7. (7) '[ "Inspector General"] means '[the officer for the time being appointed by the Government as] the Inspector General of Prisons ;
8. (8) "Medical Subordinate" means an Assistant Surgeon, Apothecary or qualified Sub-Assistant Surgeon ; and
9. (9) "Prohibited article" means an article the introduction or removal of which into or out of a prison is prohibited by any rule under this Act.