2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context(1) "adolescent offender" means any person who has been convicted of any offence punishable with imprisonment or who having been ordered to give security under section 106 or section 118 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, has failed to do so or who, having been dealt with under the provision of section 562 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, has failed to enter into a bond or find securities or who, when the bond has been cancelled under section 126A of that Code, has failed to give fresh security and who at the time of such conviction or failure to give security (i) in any area where the ¹[* * *] Children Act, 1922, is in force, is not less than sixteen nor more than twenty-one years of age, or (ii) in any other area is not less than fifteen nor more than twenty-one years of age; (2) "Borstal school" means a school established by the Government under section 3; (3) "Inspector-General" means the Inspector-General of Prisons and includes any officer appointed by the Government to perform all or any of the duties imposed, or to exercise all or any of the powers, conferred by this Act, on the Inspector-General; and (4) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.