In this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(a) “active duty” means,—

(b) ‘Commandant’ and ‘Assistant Commandant’ mean respectively persons appointed to be those officers by Government under section 146;

(c) ‘follower’ means any person appointed to do the work of a cook, mess servant, washerman, cobbler, barber, tailor, sweeper or an orderly in connection with the State Reserve Police Force;

(d) ‘members of the subordinate ranks’ means members of the State Reserve Police of and below the rank of Subedar Major;

(e) ‘Reserve Police Officer’ means any member of the State Reserve Police Force established under this Chapter;

(f) ‘superior officer’ means in relation to any Reserve Police Officer, a Reserve Police Officer of a higher rank than, or of a higher grade in the same class as, or of the same rank as, but senior to, himself.