the Court to act in such proceeding ; (r) "police report" means a report forwarded by a police officer to Magistrate under sub-section (2) of section 173; (s) "police station" means any post or place declared generally or specially by the State Government, to be a police station, and includes any local area specified by the State Government in this behalf ; (t) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under Code; this (u) "Public Prosecutor" means any person appointed under section 24, and includes any person acting under the directions of a Public Prosecutor ; (v) "sub-division" means a sub-division of a district; (w) "summons-case" means a case relating to an offence, and not being a warrant-case ; 814 (x) "warrant-case" means a case relating to an offence punishable with death, imprisonment for life or imprisonment for a term exceeding two years; (y) words and expressions used herein and not defined but defined in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Code. 3. Construction of references. 3. Construction of references. (1) In this Code,(a) any reference, without any qualifying words, to a Magistrate, shall be construed, unless the context otherwise requires,(i) in relation to an area outside a metropolitan area, as a reference to a Judicial Magistrate ; (ii)in relation to a metropolitan area, as a to a Metropolitan Magistrate; reference (b) any reference to a Magistrate of the second class shall, in relation to an area outside a metropolitan area, be construed as a reference to a Judicial Magistrate of the second class, and, in relation to a metropolitan area, as a