Lawgist8Certificates to police officers
1Every police-officer 2[appointed to the police force other than an officer mentioned in section 4] shall receive on his appointment a certificate in the from annexed to this Act under the seal of the Inspector-General or such other officer as the InspectorGeneral shall appoint, by virtue of which the person holding such certificate shall be vested with the powers, functions, and privileges of a police-officer.
Surrender of certificate.--3[Such certificate shall cease to have effect whenever the person named in it ceases for any reason to be a police-officer, and, on his ceasing to be such an officer, shall be forthwith surrendered by him to any officer empowered to receive the same.
A police-officer shall not by reason of being suspended from office cease to be a police-officer. During the term of such suspension the powers, functions and privileges vested in him as a policeofficer shall be in abeyance, but he shall continue subject to the same responsibilities, discipline and penalties and to the same authorities, as if he had not been suspended.]
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1. As to enrolment, maintenance and discipline of --
(1) the Military Police-force employed in--
(a) the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, see the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Military Police (Disbandment ) Regulation, 1946 (3 of 1946);
(b) Assam, see the Assam Rifles Act, 1941 (5 of 1941);
(c) Bengal, see the Eastern Frontier Rifles (Bengal Battalion) Act, 1920 (Ben. 2 of 1920);
(2) the Punjab Frontier Police-officers, see the Punjab Frontier Police-officer Regulation, 1893 (7 of 1893);
(3) the Calcutta and Suburban Police, see the Calcutta Police Act, 1866 (Ben. 4 of 1866) and the Calcutta Suburban Police Act, 1866 (Ben. 2 of 1866);
(4) the Police establishment in municipal areas in the U.P., see the U.P. Municipalities Act, 1916 (U.P. 2 of 1916);
(5) the Police establishment in municipal areas in the Punjab, see the Punjab Municipal Act, 1911 (Pun. 3 of 1911);
(6) the Rural Police in the Sonthal Parganas, see the Sonthal Parganas Rural Police Regulation, 1910 (4 of 1910);
(7) the Rural Police in Chota Nagpur, see the Chota Nagpur Rural Police Act, 1914 (B. & O. 1 of 1914);
(8) the U.P. Special Armed Constabulary, see the U.P. Special Armed Constabulary Act, 1942 (U.P. 5 of 1942);
(9) the Delhi Special Police Establishment, see the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946 (25 of 1946); and
(10) Delhi Police, see, Delhi Police Act, 1978 (34 of 1978).
2. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "so appointed".
3. Subs. by Act 8 of 1895, s. 3, for the second paragraph.
- 1 Interpretation clause
- 2 Constitution of the force
- 3 Superintendence in the State Government
- 4 Inspector-General of Police, etc
- 5 Powers of Inspector General Exercise of power
- 6 [Repealed.]
- 7 Appointment, dismissal, etc., of inferior officers
- 8 Certificates to police officers
- 9 Police-officers not to resign without leave or two months’ notice
- 10 Police-officers not to engage in other employment
- 11 [Repealed.]
- 12 Power of Inspector-General to make rules
- 13 Additional police-officer employed at cost of individuals
- 14 Appointment of additional force in the neighbourhood of railway and other works
- 15 Quartering of additional police in disturbed or dangerous districts
- 15A Awarding compensation to sufferers from misconduct of inhabitants or persons interested in land
- 16 Recovery of moneys payable under sections 13, 14, 15 and 15A, and disposal of same when recovered
- 17 Special police-officers
- 18 Powers of special police-officers
- 19 Refusal to serve as special police-officers
- 20 Authority to be exercised by police-officers
- 21 Village police-officers
- 22 Police-officers always on duty and may be employed in, any part of district
- 23 Duties of police-officers
- 24 Police-officers may lay information, etc
- 25 Police-officers to take charge of unclaimed property, and be subject to Magistrates orders as to disposal
- 26 Magistrate may detain property and issue proclamation
- 27 Confiscation of property if no claimant appears
- 28 Persons refusing to deliver up certificate, etc., on ceasing to be police-officers
- 29 Penalties for neglect of duty, etc
- 30 Regulation of public assemblies and processions and licensing of the same
- 30A Powers with regard to assemblies and processions violating conditions of license
- 31 Police to keep order in public roads, etc
- 32 Penalty for disobeying orders issued under last three sections, etc
- 33 Saving of control of Magistrate of district
- 34 Punishment for certain offences on roads, etc
- 35 Jurisdiction
- 36 Power to prosecute under other law not affected
- 37 Recovery of penalties and fines imposed by Magistrates
- 41 [Repealed.]
- 42 Limitation of actions
- 43 Plea that act was done under warrant
- 44 Police-officers to keep diary
- 45 State Government may prescribe form of returns
- 46 Scope of Act
- 47 Authority of District Superintendent of Police over village police
