Section 2: In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -

"charge " includes complaint; "child" means a person under the age of 18 years; "committal proceedings" means proceedings taken or conducted under Part IV of the Act; "committed for trial" used in relation to any person, means a person committed to take his trial in the High Court by a committing Magistrate; "corporation" includes a statutory corporation established by an Act of Parliament, a company incorporated and registered under the Companies Act 2009 ( Act No. 5 of 2009), or any other enactment; "Courts Act" means the Courts Act, 1965 (Act No. 31 of 1965); "Court" means a Court of criminal jurisdiction established by law in Sierra Leone other than a Local Court established by or under the Local Courts Act, 2011 (Act No. 1 of 2011); "defendant" means a person charged with a criminal offence; "document" includes a map, photograph, film, tape or video recording, disc, or any form of computer input or output and any other material, whether produced or recorded mechanically, electronically, digitally, manually or otherwise; "indictment" means a document containing a charge or charges against the defendant signed by a Law Officer or the Anti-Corruption Commissioner; "information" means a document containing a charge or charges against a defendant signed by a prosecutor or by Counsel; "inquiry" includes committal proceedings; "Judge" means a judge of the High Court or a Justice of the Court of Appeal or of the Supreme Court, assigned by the Chief Justice to sit in the High Court; "Law Officer" includes the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, the Solicitor-General, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the First Parliamentary Counsel, the Head of the Civil and Commercial Division, Head of International and Human Right Division and every other State Counsel; "marriage" means a marriage between a man and a woman celebrated and recognised as valid under - (i) the Christian Marriage Act (Cap 95); (ii) the Muslim Marriage Act (Cap 96); (iii) the Civil Marriage Act (Cap 97); or 2 3 Commencement. Interpretation. (iv) the Registration of Customary Marriages and Divorces Act, 2009 or any other rules of customary law in force in Sierra Leone; "Minister"means the Attorney-Genaral and Minister of Justice or Ministers responsible for the correctional service, social welfare, and gender and children's affairs; "offence" means an act or behavior that is prohibited and punishable according to the laws of Sierra Leone; "Police Officer" means a member of the Sierra Leone Police; "prosecutor" means a person who gives information or causes information to be given on his behalf against a defendant and includes the Attorney- General and Minister of Justice and any other Law Officer, the Anti-Corruption Commissioner or a person duly authorised to prosecute a criminal offence; "Registrar" means a person appointed to perform the duties of a Registrar in a Court; "spouse" means a husband or wife, in a valid civil, religious or customary marriage according to the laws of Sierra Leone.