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Jyaistha 07, 1937, at 08:05:53 PM
The Police Act, 1888
1Act No. III of 1888
An Act to amend the Law relating to the regulation of Police
[17th February, 1888]
WHEREAS it is expedient to relax those provisions of Acts for the regulation of police
which restrict the employment of police-officers to the presidency, province or place of the
police establishment of
which they are members; It is hereby enacted as follows:---
1. Title and extent.-(1) This Act may be called the Police Act, 1888.
2[(2) It extends to the whole of
3* * * * * * *
4[2. Constitution of police forces for special purposes. -(1) Notwithstanding anything
in 5* *
*, the Police Act, 1861(V of 1861), 6* *
*
7* *
*,
the 8[Federal Government] may, by notification 9in the official Gazette, create a special police
district embracing parts of two. or more Provinces, and extend to every part of the said district!
the powers and jurisdiction of members of a police force belonging to any part of l0[Pakistan Bom. IV of 1890)] specified in the notification.
(2) Subject to any orders which the 8[Federal Government] may make in this behalf,
members of the said police force shall
1 For
Statement of
Objects and Reasons, see Gazette of India, 1888, Pt. V, p. 130; for Report of
the Select Committee, see ibid., 1888, Pt. IV, p. 8;
and for Proceedings in Council, see ibid., 1887, Pt. VI, p. 100, and ibid., 1888, pp. 37
and
40.
This Act has been declared
to
be in force in
Balochistan by the British Balochistan Laws Regulation, 1913 (2 of 1913).
It has also been extended
to the Leased Areas of
Balochistan, see the Leased Areas (Laws) Order, 1950
(G.G.O. 3 of
1950) ; and
applied in the
Federated Areas of Balochistan, see Gazette of India, 1937, Pt. I, p. 1499.
2 Sub-section (2) as amended by A. O., 1949, Arts. 3(2) and 4, has been subs. by the Central Laws (Statute Reform) Ordinance, 1960 (21 of
1960). s. 3 and
2nd Sch. (with
effect from
the 14th
October, 1955).
3 The word and at the end
of sub-section (2), and sub-section
(3),
were rep. by the Repealing
and Amending
Act, 1914
(10
of 1914), s. 3
and
Sch. II.
4 Subs. by A. O., 1937, for
the original section as amended by the Amending
Act, 1891 (12 of
1891).
5 The words and
figures the Madras District Police Act, 1859, omitted by A. O., 1949, Sch.
6 Omitted
by
the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Ordinance, 1981 (27
of 1981), s. 3 and 2nd Sch.
7 The words or
any
Act relating to the Police in any Presidency-town, omitted, ibid.
8 Subs. by F.A.O., 1975, Art. 2
and
Table, for
Central Government.
9 For
such notifications, see Gen. R. & O., and the Gazette of India, 1937, Extraordinary, dated 1st April, 1937, pp. 671 and 672, and ibid., Pt. I,
pp. 873 and 1553.
10 Subs. by the Central Laws (Statute Reform) Ordinance, 1960 (21 of 1960), s. 3
and
2nd
Sch. (with effect from 14th October, 1955), for the
Provinces and the Capital of
the Federation which
had
been subs. by A. O., 1949, Arts. 3(2) and 4, for
have, within every
part of any Province of which any part is included in the said district, the powers, duties,
privileges and
liabilities which, as police officers, they have in their
own
Province.
(3)
Any member of the
said police
force whom
the
l[Federal Government] shall generally or
specially empower to act under this sub-section may, subject to any orders which the
l[Federal Government] may make in this behalf, exercise within any Province any part of which is included in the
said district any of
the powers of the officer in charge of
a police-station in that
Province, and when so exercising any such powers, shall, subject to any
such order as aforesaid, be
deemed to be an officer in charge of a police-station
discharging
the functions of such an
officer within the limits of his station.
(4) A part of a Province included in
the said district shall not by reason of
that inclusion cease, for the purposes of
any enactment relating to police, to be part of that Province.
3. Employment of police officers beyond
the Province
to which
they belong.
Notwithstanding anything in any of the Acts mentioned or referred to in the last foregoing section, but subject to any orders which the 2[Federal Government] may make in this behalf, a
member of the 3[police force] of any 4[Province] may discharge the functions of a police-officer
in any part of 5[Pakistan] beyond the limits of the 4[Province] and shall, while so discharging
such functions, be deemed to be a member of the 3[police force of that part and be vested with the powers,
functions and
privileges, and
be
subject to the liabilities,
of
a
police -officer belonging to 6[that police force].
7[4. Consent of Provincial Government
to exercise of powers and jurisdiction. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to enable the police
of one Province to exercise powers and jurisdiction in any area within another Province, not
being a railway area, without the consent of
the Government of that other Province.]
1 Subs. by F.A.O., 1975. Art. 2
and
Table, for
Cetrnal Government.
2 Subs. ibid.,
for Central Government which had been subs. by A. O., 1937. for
G. G. in C..
3 Subs. by A.O., 1937, for police-establishment.
4 Subs. ibid., for presidency, province or
place.
5 Subs. by the Central Laws (Statute Reform) Ordinance, 1960 (21 of
1960), s. 3 and 2nd Sch. (with
effect from the 14th October, 1955). for
the
Provinces and the Capital of
the Federation which
had
been subs. by A. O.,1949, Arts. 3 (2) and 4, for
6 Subs, by A.O., 1937, for that establishment.
7 Ins. ibid., cf., the Govt. of
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