Page:Army Act, 1950 on Gazette of India.pdf/3

THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY :(ix) "department" includes any division or branch of a department;
 * (x) "enemy" includes ail armed mutineers, armed rebels, armed rioters, pirates and any person in arms against whom it is the duty of any person subject to military law to act;
 * (xi) "the Forces" means the regular Army, Navy and Air Force or any part of any one or more of them,
 * (xii) "junior commissioned officer" means a person commissioned, gazetted or in pay as a junior commissioned officer in the regular Army or the Indian Reserve Forces, and includes a person holding a junior commission in the Indian Supplementary Reserve Forces, or the Territorial Army or a junior or equivalent commission in the land forces 01 a Part B State, who is for the time being subject to this Act;
 * (xiii) "military custody" means tho arrest or confinement of a person according to the usages of the service and includes naval or air force custody;
 * (xiv) "military reward" includes any gratuity or annuity for long service or good conduct, good service pay or pension, and any other military pecuniary reward;
 * (xv) "non-commissioned officer" means a person holding a non-commissioned rank or an acting non-commissioned rank in the regular Army or the Indian Reserve Forces, and includes a non-commissioned officer or acting non-commissioned officer of the Indian Supplementary Reserve Forces or the territorial Army or the land forces of a Part B State, -who is for the time being subject to this Act;
 * (xvi) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
 * (xvii) "offence" means any act or omission punishable under this Act and includes a civil offence as hereinbefore defined;
 * (xviii) ' officer" means a person commissioned, gazetted or in pay as an officer in the regular Army, and include—
 * (a) an officer of the Indian Reserve Forces;
 * (b) an officer holding a commission in the Territorial Army granted by tho President with designation of rank corresponding to that of an officer of the regular Army who is for the time being subject to this Act;
 * (c) an officer of the Army in India Reserve of Officers who is for the time being subject to this Act;
 * (d) an officer of the Indian Regular Reserve of Officers who is for the time being subject to this Act;
 * (e) an officer of the land forces of any Part B State who is for the time being subject to this Act;
 * (f) in relation to a person subject to this Act when serving under such conditions us may be prescribed, an officer of the Navy or Air Force;
 * but does not include a junior commissioned officer, warrant officer, petty officer or non-commissioned officer;
 * (xix) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
 * (xx) "provost-marshal" means a person appointed as such under section 107 and includes any of his deputies or assistants or any other person legally exercising authority under him or on his behalf;
 * (xxi) "regular Army" means officers, junior commissioned officers, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and other enrolled persons who