20. Interpretation

In this Act unless the context otherwise requires-

“anti-personnel mine” means a mine designed to be exploded by the presence, proximity or contact of a person and that will incapacitate, injure or kill one or more persons. Mine designed to be detonated by the presence, proximity or contact of a vehicle as opposed to a person, that are equipped with anti-handling devices, are not considered anti-personnel mines as a result of being so equipped;

“armed forces” mean Army, Navy and Air Force raised and maintained under Army Act

(Chapter 357), Navy Act (Chapter 358) and Air

Force Act (Chapter 359) respectively;

“convention” means the Convention on the

Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on

Their Destruction concluded by the Diplomatic

Conference on an International Total Ban on

Anti-Personnel Land Mines at Oslo on

September 18, 1997;

“government institution” includes any Ministry, government department, public corporation, local authority, business or other undertaking within the meaning of Conversion of

Government Owned Business Undertakings into Public Corporations Act, No. 22 of 1987, company registered or deemed to be registered under the Companies Act, No. 7 of 2007, in which the Government, a public corporation, or any local authority holds more than fifty per centum of the shares and any Ministry or

Department of any Provincial Council or any

Authority established by or created by a

Provincial Council;

“mine” means ammunition designed to be placed under, on or near the ground or other surface area and to be exploded by the presence, proximity or contact of a person or a vehicle;

“Minister” means the Minister to whom this Act is assigned under Article 44 or 45 of the

Constitution;

“police officer” shall have same meaning as in the

Police Ordinance (Chapter 53);

“public corporation” means any corporation, board or other body which was or is established by or under any written law other than the

Companies Ordinance, with funds or capital wholly or partly provided by the Government by way of grant, loan or otherwise;

“secretary” means the Secretary to the Ministry of the Minister; and

“transfer” involves, in addition to the physical movement of an anti-personnel mine into or from national territory, the transfer of title to and control over the mine, but does not involve the transfer of territory containing emplaced anti-personnel mine.