"peace officer"

includes any magistrate, justice, police official, correctional official as defined in section 1 of the Correctional Services Act, 1959 (Act No. 8 of 1959), and, in relation to any area, offence, class of offence or power referred to in a notice issued under section 334(1), any person who is a peace officer under that section;

[Definition substituted by section 4 of Act No. 18 of 1996]