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Section 2 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Interpretation

    

In this Code, unless the context otherwise requires—
“cognizable offence” means an offence for which a police officer may, in accordance with the First Schedule or under any law for the time being in force, arrest without warrant;
“complaint "Deleted by Act No. 7 of 2007;
“drug related offence” means any specified in Part V of the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 245) and includes the possession, manufacture, distribution or receipt of any drug of any quantity whatsoever;
“non-cognizable offence” means an offence for which a police officer may not arrest without warrant;
“officer in charge of a police station” includes any officer superior in rank to an officer in charge of a police station and also 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 that officer, and is above the rank of constable, or, when the Attorney-General so directs, any other police officer so present;
“plea agreement” means an agreement entered into between the prosecution and an accused person in a criminal trial in accordance with Part IV; “police officer” means a police officer or an administration police officer;
“police station” means a police station within the meaning of section 2 of the Police Act (Cap. 84);
“prosecutor” means a public prosecutor or a person permitted by the court to conduct a prosecution under section 88 of the Act;
“public prosecutor” means the Director of Public Prosecutions, a state counsel, a person appointed under section 85 or a person acting under the direction of the Director of Public Prosecutions;
“Registrar of the High Court” includes a Deputy Registrar of the High Court and a district registrar of the High Court;
“summary trial” means a trial held by a subordinate court under Part VI.

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