The Bombay Village Police Act, 1867

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    "title": "The Bombay Village Police Act, 1867",
    "short_title": "The Bombay Village Police Act, 1867",
    "act_number": "Bombay Act No. 8 of 1867",
    "act_year": 1867,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": "1867-12-21",
    "description": "The Bombay Village Police Act, 1867",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Interpretation clause.",
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            "content": "[2. Gujarat Extent XXXIV of 1961.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Administration, control and direction of village-police, in whom vested.",
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            "content": "",
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            "sort_order": 1
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Power to depute to District Superintendent authority over village-police-officer.",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Village police in villages under charge of Police-patel.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(2) Appointment of Police-patel.\n(3) Police-Patels may be appointed for different divisions of town or place.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Duties of Police-patel.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Authority over village servants.",
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            "content": "",
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            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Precautions against robbery, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[9. Penalties for neglect of duty etc.\n[9A. Liability to criminal prosecution not affected.\nPower to suspend during trial.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Information to officer in charge of District Polic.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Inquest in cases of unnatural of sudden death or corpse found within village.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(2) Punishment for refusing or neglecting to serve on inquest.\n(3) Corpse when to be nearest Civil Surgeon etc. for examination.\nWhen burning to be delayed till officer in charge of police-station assents.",
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            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Police-patel to apprehend person he believes has committed serious offence.",
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            "content": "(2) Person apprehended to be forwarded to Police-station.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Power to call and examine witnesses, record evidence and search for concealed articles.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(2) Power to enter limits of other villages.\n14. [Power to try and punishment for petty assault or abuse.]\n15. [Magistrate may issue a commission to Police-patel to try certain offenders. Power-patel to punish.]\n16. [Power to prohibit and to punish for beating, etc., animal; bathing, washing in, or defiling, well, etc; depositing dirt etc; committing nuisance, etc; accumulating offensive matter in cesspools, etc; allowing offensive matter to issue on thoroughfare, depositing dead bodies, so as to corrupt water for drinking.]\n17. [Proceedings how taken under sections 14, 15 and 16.]\n18. [Power to cancel commission issued under section 15.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Unclaimed property.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Prosecution under other regulations, etc. for offence Punishable by Act.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Provision in case of absence, sudden illness, etc. of Police-patel.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "22. \"District Police-station\" defined.\n23. [Application of Act to certain areas with modifications.]",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Short title.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[25. Repeal and saving.",
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    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "guj219",
        "Act Number": "Bombay Act No. 8 of 1867",
        "Enactment Date": "21st December 1867",
        "Act Year": "1867",
        "Short Title": "The Bombay Village Police Act, 1867",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:26"
}