{ "id": 17118, "slug": "haryana-state-industrial-security-force-act-2003", "title": "Haryana State Industrial Security Force Act, 2003", "short_title": "Haryana State Industrial Security Force Act, 2003", "act_number": "Haryana Act No. 21 of 2003", "act_year": 2003, "act_type": "STATE", "location": "Haryana", "law_status": "unknown", "enactment_date": null, "description": "Haryana State Industrial Security Force Act, 2003", "preamble": "", "section_label": "Section", "sections": [ { "number": "1", "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.", "chapter": null, "content": "Object & Reasons 6\nStatement of Objects and Reasons.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 0 }, { "number": "2", "title": "2. Definitions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) \"autonomous body\" means an institution wholly or partially run on the funds or grants of or controlled by the Government;\n(b) \"Director General\" means the Director General of the Force appointed under section 4;\n(c) \"enrolled members of the Force\" means any upper subordinate, lower subordinate or any other member of the Force of the rank not lower than that of a lower subordinate;\n(d) \"establishment\" means an office, rest house or such other institutions run by the Government;\n(e) \"Force\" means the State Industrial Security Force constituted under section 3;\n(f) \"Force custody\" means the arrest or confinement of a person by the member of the Force in accordance with the rules made under this Act;\n(g) \"Government\" means the Government of State of Haryana;\n(h) \"industrial undertaking\" means any undertaking pertaining to a scheduled industry and includes as undertaking engaged in any other industry, or in any trade, business or service which may be regulated by law made by the Parliament or Legislative Assembly of the State.\n(i) \"industrial undertaking in public sector\" means an industrial undertaking owned, controlled or managed by the Government and includes, -\n(I) a Government company as defined in section 617 of the Companies Act (Central Act 1 of 1956);\n(II) a Corporation established and controlled by the Government;\n(j) \"institution\" means any organization meant for advancement of trade, business or any other social or an economic services and includes banks, universities and other educational institutions;\n(k) \"Managing Director\" in relation to an industrial undertaking means the person, who exercises control over the affairs of that undertaking and includes a general manager, chief executive officer or called by any other name;\n(l) \"member of the Force\" means a person appointed as such to the Force under this Act;\n(m) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(n) \"scheduled industry\" means any industry engaged in the manufacture or production of the articles mentioned in the First Schedule to the Industries Development and Regulation Act, 1951 (Central Act 65 of 1951);\n(o) \"State\" means the State of Haryana;\n(p) \"strategic and vital installations\" means all such vulnerable points or areas as specified by the Government from time to time, and declared essential for the maintenance of the life of the community and which require special protection against sabotage;\n(q) \"upper subordinate\" means a person appointed to the Force as an Inspector, a Sub-Inspector or an Assistant Sub-Inspector;\n(r) \"supervisory officer\" means any of the officers appointed under section 4 and includes any other officer appointed by the Government as supervisory officer of the Force;\n(s) \"lower subordinate\" means a person appointed to the Force as a Head Constable, or Constable.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": true, "sort_order": 1 }, { "number": "3", "title": "3. Constitution of the Force.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 2 }, { "number": "4", "title": "4. Appointment and powers of the Director General and Supervisory Officers.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 3 }, { "number": "5", "title": "5. Appointment of enrolled members of the Force.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 4 }, { "number": "6", "title": "6. Certificates of members of the Force.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 5 }, { "number": "7", "title": "7. Superintendence and administration of the Force.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 6 }, { "number": "8", "title": "8. Duties of members of the Force.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) to obey and execute all orders lawfully issued to him by his superior authority;\n(ii) to protect and safeguard the Government treasuries, institutions, autonomous bodies, industrial undertakings and assets owned and controlled by the State and Central Governments and strategic and vital installations under their control;\n(iii) to protect and safeguard such other industrial undertakings and installations for the protection and security of which he is deputed under section 9;\n(iv) to protect and safeguard the employees of the industrial undertakings and installations referred to in clauses (ii) and (iii);\n(v) to do any other act conducive to the protection and security of the institutions, autonomous bodies, industrial undertakings and assets owned and controlled by the State and Central Governments and strategic and vital installations referred to in clauses (ii) and (iii) and the employees referred to in clause (iv).", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 7 }, { "number": "9", "title": "9. Deputation of the Force.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 8 }, { "number": "10", "title": "10. Power to arrest without warrant.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) any person, who voluntarily causes hurt to or attempts voluntarily to cause hurt to, or wrongfully restrains or attempts wrongfully to restrain or assaults, threatens to assault or uses or threatens or attempts to use criminal force to any employee, referred to in clause (iv) of section 8, or to him or any other member of the Force in discharge of his duty as such employee or in execution of his duty as such member, as the case may be, or with intent to prevent or to deter him from discharging his duty as such member or in consequence of anything done or attempted to be done by him in the lawful discharge of his duty as such member;\n(ii) any person who has been concerned in, or against whom a reasonable suspicion exists of his having been concerned in or who is found taking precautions to conceal his presence under circumstances which afford reason to believe that he is taking such precautions with a view to committing cognizable offence which relates to property belonging to, or in the premises of any establishment, institution, autonomous body, industrial undertaking and assets owned and controlled by the State and Central Governments or any strategic and vital installations referred to in clauses (ii) and (iii) of section 8, or relates to other installations, or to property in the premises of the other installations, referred to in these clauses or the establishments, institutions, autonomous bodies, industrial undertakings and assets owned and controlled by the State and Central Government or strategic and vital installations for the protection of which he is deputed under section 9;\n(iii) any person who commits or attempts to commit a cognizable offence which involves or which is likely to involve danger, to the life of any person engaged in carrying on any work relating to any establishment, institution, autonomous body, undertaking, or installations referred to in clause (ii) of this sub-section.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 9 }, { "number": "11", "title": "11. Power to search.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 10 }, { "number": "12", "title": "12. Procedure to be followed after arrest.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 11 }, { "number": "13", "title": "13. Protection of action done in good faith.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 12 }, { "number": "14", "title": "14. Cognizance of offence.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 13 }, { "number": "15", "title": "15. Members of the Force to the considered always on duty and liable to be employed any where in the State and outside also.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 14 }, { "number": "16", "title": "16. Punishments and appeals.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 15 }, { "number": "17", "title": "17. Restrictions to form Association.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 16 }, { "number": "18", "title": "18. Surrender of certificate, arms etc., by persons ceasing to be members of the Force.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 17 }, { "number": "19", "title": "19. Application of Act, 1922 to the members of the Force.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 18 }, { "number": "20", "title": "20. Power to make rules.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) regulating the classes, ranks, grades, pay and remuneration of members of the Force and their conditions of service in the Force;\n(b) regulating the powers and duties of members of the Force authorised to exercise any functions by or under this Act;\n(c) fixing the period of service for members of the force;\n(d) prescribing the description and quantity of arms, accoutrements, clothing and other necessary articles to be furnished to the members of the Force;\n(e) prescribing the places of residence of members of the Force;\n(f) institution, management and regulation of any fund for any purpose connected with the administration of the Force;\n(g) regulating the punishments and prescribing authorities to whom appeals may be preferred from orders of punishments, or remission of fines or other punishments, and the procedure to be followed for the disposal of such appeals;\n(h) regulating matters with respect of Force custody under this Act including the procedure to be followed for taking persons into custody;\n(i) regulating matters with respect to disposal of cases relating to offences under this Act and specifying places in which persons convicted under this Act may be confined;\n(j) the terms and conditions subject to which members of the Force may be deputed under section 9 and the charges thereof.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 19 } ], "metadata": { "Act ID": "hl681", "Act Number": "Haryana Act No. 21 of 2003", "Enactment Date": "", "Act Year": "2003", "Short Title": "Haryana State Industrial Security Force Act, 2003", "Type": "STATE", "Location": "Haryana" }, "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19" }