Interpretation

In this Act unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context— (a) the expression "Prison" includes a central, district or subsidiary jail, a judicial lock-up, and every place which is used as a place of detention for persons who have been arrested or detained under any law for the time being in force; (b) the expression "prisoner" includes every person who is detained in a prison by order of a competent authority not being a Civil Court; (c) the expression "transferable prisoner" means any Muslim prisoner who is in custody in any prison in Union territory of Chandigarh under lawful orders of a duly empowered Court or other authority, and who is willing to be transferred to Pakistan under the Provisions of Part II; and (d) the expression "repatriated prisoner" means a person who being in custody in a prison or other place of detention in the Province of Pakistan or in any area in Pakistan adjacent to that Province, or which has acceded to Pakistan is conveyed and delivered by a duly authorised official of the Government of Pakistan or the Government of Punjab in Pakistan in compliance with the orders of such Government to an official of the Central Government.