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In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in r,· I ... the subject or context,- (a) " adolescent offender" means any person not less than fourteen and not more than twenty-one years of age who has been convicted of any offence punishable with imprisonment but not punishable with death or who having been ordered to give security under section !06 or section 112 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, has failed to do so or who, when the bond has been cancelled under section 126A of that Code, has failed to give fresh security ; (b) "Borstal Institution" means a place in which adolescent offenders may be detained under this Act and given such industrial, vocational, g<""neral educational and cultural training and other instructions and subjected to such disciplinary and moral influences as will be conducive to their reformation ; (c) ''detained" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions means detained in a Borstal Institution ; (d) ''Director" means a Director of Borstal Institutions appoint«d under sub-section (1) of section 4 ; (c) "inmate" means any person ordered to be detained under this Act ; (f ) "officer" means an officer of a Borstal Institution appointed in su::h manner as may be prescribed and includes the Director and the Superintendent of Borstal Instit tions appointed under section 4 ; (g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rule made under this Act ; V of l 89fi~ ' ~ : '.f!iEfA~SAM'GAZETTE, ,F,XTRAORDINARY, FEB. 10, 1969 133 -- ? --.... --rr-- - Establish. ment ot Borstal · I nstitutioru. (h) ''Superintendent" means a Superintendent of a Borstal Institution appointed under sub-section (2) of section 4 ; ·(i) "visiting committee" means a visiting com· mittee -appointed under s.ub-section (3) of section 4,