Section 2: In this Act unless the context otherwise requires—

"customary law" means any rule, other than a rule of general law, having the force of law in any chiefdom of the Provinces whereby rights and correlative duties have been acquired or imposed which is applicable in any particular case and conforms with natural justice and equity and not incompatible, either directly or indirectly, with any enactment applying to the Provinces, and includes any amendments of customary law made in accordance with the provisions of any enactment; "District Officer" includes an Assistant District Officer; "general law" includes the common law, equity and all enactments in force in Sierra Leone except in so far as they are concerned with customary law; "Judicial Adviser" means any person appointed as such by the Public Service Commission and includes an Assistant Judicial Adviser so appointed; [Margin: handwritten: Act 19/74] "Minister" means the Minister responsible for legal and judicial matters. [Margin: Change of nomenclature.]