Section 2: Interpretation.

In this Act unless the contrary intention appears- "citizen" includes any person either of whose parents is a negro of African descent and who but for subsection (3) of section 1 of the Constitution would have been a citizen of Sierra Leone; "Immigration Officer" includes the Principal Immigration Officer and any Assistant Immigration Officer; "lodging house" means any premises whether furnished or unfurnished, where lodging or sleeping accommodation is provided for reward and includes an hotel; "lodging-house keeper" means any person who for reward receives any other person to lodge in such premises, either on his own behalf or as manager or otherwise on behalf of any other person; "non-citizen" means any person who is not a citizen; "privileged African" means a citizen of any of the countries listed in the Second Schedule (as the same may from time to time be varied, amended or replaced by Order of the Prime Minister published in the Gazette) or any person one of whose parents was a citizen of any such country; "prohibited immigrant" means a person other than a citizen being or appearing to be a prohibited immigrant within the meaning of section 19; "recognised airfield or airport" means an airfield or airport declared by Order of the Governor-General to be recognised for the purposes of this Act; "registrable lodger" means any person other than y citizen or a privileged African; "travel certificate" means any document which establishes to the satisfaction of the Immigration Officer the identity and nationality of the person producing the same; "valid passport" means a passport referring to the person producing the same, furnished with a photograph of such person, and issued to him by or on behalf of the country of which he is a subject or a citizen and for a period which, according to the laws of that country, has not expired, and includes any other similar document issued by a competent Passport control Authority establishing both the nationality and identity of the person to whom it refers to the satisfaction of an Immigration Officer.