The Bihar Home Guards Rules, 1953

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    "slug": "the-bihar-home-guards-rules-1953",
    "title": "The Bihar Home Guards Rules, 1953",
    "short_title": "The Bihar Home Guards Rules, 1953",
    "act_number": "Published vide Notification No. E/HG-1801/53-C.-72",
    "act_year": 1953,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Bihar",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Bihar Home Guards Rules, 1953",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"The Act\" means the Bihar Home Guards Act, 1947;\n(b) \"The Inspector-General\" means the Inspector-General of Home Guards;\n(c) \"The Commandant\" means the Commandant of Home Guards;\n(d) \"District Magistrate\" includes the Additional District Magistrate of Saharasa and the Additional Deputy Commissioner of Dhanbad;\n(e) \"Form\" means a Form set out in the Second Schedule to these Rules; and\n(f) \"Home Guards Force\" means the force consisting of the class of officers and men referred to in Rule 3.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Organisation.",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Qualifications for enrolment as a Home Guard.",
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            "content": "(a) Who is not less than 19 and not more than 40 years of age on the 1st day of January of the year in which the application for enrolment is made;\n(b) Who is of good moral character;\n(c) Who is physically fit to undergo arduous outdoor duties;\n(d) Whose height is not less than 5'-4\" and chest measurement not less than 31\" (unexpanded) or in the case of Scheduled Tribes of Chota Nagpur Division or the Santhal Parganas District and of persons belonging to the Purnea District and the Saharsa Sub-district, whose height is not less than 5'-2\" and chest measurement not less than 30\" (unexpanded); and\n(e) Who has passed at least the Upper Primary or equivalent examination;",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Procedure for appointment of [officers, men and women of the Home Guards] Force.",
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            "content": "(ii) The Commandant shall, on the advice of a Committee constituted by the State Government, appoint all Jamadar head clerks and accountants.\n(iii) The Commandant shall appoint all Havildar clerks, Writer Naiks, Naiks, L/Naiks and sepoys in the force.\n(ii) Home Guards shall be enrolled by the District Magistrate on the recommendation of-\n(a) A District Committee in each district consisting of the Commandant or, in his absence, Battalion Commander, the District Magistrate and the Superintendent of Police of the district, and a non-official member nominated by the State Government. The District Magistrate shall be the Chairman of the Committee; or\n(b) A State Committee consisting of the Commandant and such other members as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. The Chairman of this committee shall be nominated by the State Government.\n(iii) After holding tests of the general knowledge, alertness, intelligence and physical fitness of the candidates (who make applications to the District Magistrate) under its supervision, the district committee shall interview all or such of the candidates as it thinks fit and recommend, in order of preference, to the District Magistrate such number of candidates as may be equal to fifty per cent more than the number of vacancies. The State Committee shall likewise interview all the candidates, who make applications to the commandant or such of them as it thinks fit, and recommend, in order of preference, any number of candidates it considers suitable to the District Magistrate of the district in which the candidate ordinarily resides.\n(iv) After such verification of character and antecedents of the candidates recommended by the District Committee and the State Committee as may be necessary, the District Magistrate shall enroll the required number of Home Guards.\n(v) The Home Guards will be enrolled before joining the training centre by the District Magistrate, or at the time of joining the training camp by the Officer Commanding,Training Centre, who shall obtain the approval of the District Magistrate of the district concerned within a month of such enrolment.\n(vi) A Home Guard, who has been discharged from the Home Guards Force in accordance with Section 8 of the Act, may be enrolled for a fresh term of service in accordance with the provisions of the Act and these Rules.\n(vii) Ex-Home Guards, who have a satisfactory record of service and volunteer for re-enrolment, may be re-enrolled by the District Magistrate on receipt of a proposal from the Superintendent of Police and after obtaining the declaration of the Ex-Home Guard concerned in the Form prescribed in the Second Schedule.\n(viii) For the sake of maintenance of peace and tranquility and to develop in the volunteers a sense of civic responsibility, the Inspector-General of Home Guards may constitute from among the Home Guards of technical corps of the Home Guards force. The members of the technical corps of the Home Guards may be selected by the Commandant in consultation with such technical experts as the Inspector-General considers necessary and the recommendation will be sent to the District Magistrate of the districts concerned for appointment. The members of the technical corps may be required to enter into an agreement in Form G to serve in the Home Guards Force for a period of three years.\n(i) Commandant, Officer Commanding, Training Camp and Battalion Commanders.-A Secretary or Additional Secretary or Joint Secretary to the State Government.\n(ii) All Subedars and Jamadars including District Company Commanders.-Inspector-General.\n(iii) Platoon Commanders and Section Leaders.-Battalion Commanders.\n(iv) Other ranks.-District Magistrate.\n[(7) All provisions related to reservation issued by Government of Bihar will be applicable to the fresh nomination of Bihar Home Guards.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Discipline.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Discharge.",
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            "content": "(i) physical unfitness;\n(ii) attainment of 41 years of age;\n(iii) at his own request; or\n(iv) for any other special reason to be recorded in writing by the discharging authority:\n(1) Every person discharged from the Home Guards Force shall receive from the appointing authority a certificate in Form B.\n(2) Failure to report for duty, without previous permission of the calling authority or information of his disability to attend to duty on the plea that a letter of resignation has been submitted, will amount to desertion of duty within the meaning of clause (c) of sub-section (1) of Section 10 of the Act.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Surrender of certificate of appointment.",
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            "content": "(i) Commandant, Officer Commanding Central Training Camp, and Battalion Commander-A Secretary or Additional Secretary or Joint Secretary to the State Government.\n(ii) All Subedars and Jamadars including District Company Commanders-Inspector-General.\n(iii) Platoon Commanders and Section Leaders-Battalion Commanders.\n(iv) Other ranks-District Magistrate.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. List of Home Guards, their Service Books and Muster Rolls.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(ii) The Platoon Commander shall report in advance the anticipated date of discharge of a Home Guard to the Superintendent of Police for necessary action.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Uniform and accoutrements.",
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            "content": "(ii) Uniform and accoutrements shall be supplied by the State Government to all non-Gazetted Officers and men of the Home Guards Force.These uniforms and accoutrements shall continue to be the property of the State Government and shall, on discharge, be surrendered to such officer as the discharging authority may direct.\n(iii) All Gazetted Officers of the Home Guards Force shall receive initial and maintenance grants for their uniform and accoutrements in accordance with general or special orders to be issued by the State Government from time to time.\n(iv) The Home Guard Armlet shall invariably be worn in the event of any difficulty regarding supply of uniform or accoutrements.\n(v) No unauthorised ornaments or emblem shall be worn with the uniform.\n(vi) An officer of the Home Guards Force shall take his kit with him when he is transferred from one district to another.",
            "footnote": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Training.",
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            "content": "(i) infantry drills including arms drills\n(ii) weapon training\n(iii) musketry course\n(iv) first-aid and relief work relating to outbreak of fire or accident or natural calamities\n(v) fire-fighting\n(vi) map reading\n(vii) field crafts\n(viii) legal powers of Home Guards\n(ix) internal security and anti-dacoity operation\n(x) field craft and battle drill\n(xi) traffic and mob control #\n(xii) lathi drill\n(xiii) bayonet training\n(xiv) military education, and\n(xv) such duties as are prescribed under Rule 13 of these Rules.\n(i) the Inspector-General or the Commandant may exempt ex-Home Guards from initial training altogether in case he is re-enrolled for a second term of service in the force; and\n(ii) the personnel of the technical corps may be given technical training in such manner and for such period, not being more than three months, as may be determined by the State Government from time to time.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Period of duty.",
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            "content": "(ii) While the convenience of the Home Guard will ordinarily be taken into account, he must accept the roster of duties prepared by Platoon Commander concerned or other superior officers.\n(iii) A Home Guard in the reserve force shall attend a refresher course for three weeks every year or for such other term as may be determined by the State Government from time to time.\n(iv) Notwithstanding anything contained in clauses (i) to (iii), a Home Guard shall at any time be liable to be called out for the discharge of any duty specified in sub-rule (2) of Rule 13 which may be allotted to him by the District Magistrate.\n(v) Ordinarily, a Home Guard shall be called out to serve only in his own district, but in an emergency he shall be liable to serve at any time anywhere in the State.\n(ii) A Home Guard may be called out even under the verbal orders of the District Magistrate, whenever the latter considers that an emergency has arisen.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Duties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) prevention of commission of crime;\n(b) protection of life and property;\n(c) assistance in the organisation and functioning of village guards;\n(d) collection and communication of intelligence concerning law and order to the immediate superior;\n(e) Suppression of disorders;\n(f) to report and check currency of rumours likely to disturb the peace;\n(g) to assist fire-fighting services;\n(h) to render first-aid help in the removal of casualties to hospitals;\n(i) relief work relating to outbreak of f ire or accident or natural calamities;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Allowance.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(ii) The period spent in reaching a parade or assembly ground will also count as duty. Home Guards shall get a single railway or bus fare of the lowest class spent by him in reaching the place and duty allowance at the rate of Re. 1.50 per day, provided duty allowance is not drawn in accordance with sub-rule (i) above.\n(ii) Home Guards of the technical corps shall get during training free lodging and rations at the rate of Rs. 40 per month and duty allowance at an enhanced rate of Rs. 2.50 per day.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Offences against the Home Guards Force.",
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            "content": "(1) When on parade and engaged on duty or wearing Home Guard uniform or armlet, he-\n(a) uses or threatens to use force against or uses threatening or improper language to his superior officers; or\n(b) disobeys any standing order, or lawful command given by his superior officers; or\n(c) neglects to obey a general order given by the Inspector-General or Commandant or the Commanders of the unit to which he belongs; or\n(d) is found in a state of intoxication; or\n(e) being an officer of the Home Guards, strikes, ill-treats or vulgarly abuses any person who is his subordinate in rank or position and is subject to the provisions of the Act and these Rules.\n(2) Without sufficient cause, fails to appear at the place of parade at the time fixed, or to attend any place in his capacity as a Home Guard when duly required so to attend or when on parade quits the ranks.\n(3) Without sufficient cause, fails to perform any part of the training which by or under the Act he is required to perform.\n(4) Strikes, or uses or offers violence to any person, whether subject to the Act or not, in whose custody he is for the time being placed.\n(5) When in charge of any property belonging to the State Government or to the unit, illegally disposes of or is involved in unauthorised disposal of any such property.\n(6) Wilfully injures or by culpable neglect losses or causes injury to any property belonging to the State Government or to the unit.\n(7) Knowingly furnishes a false return or reports on the number or state of men under his command or charge, or of any money, arms, ammunition, clothing, equipment, stores or other property in his charge.\n(8) Through design or culpable neglect omits to submit any return of any matter mentioned in clause (7) which is his duty to furnish;\n(9) Makes a declaration, in pursuance of his official duties, which he either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true.\n(10) Knowingly makes against any person subject to the Act an accusation which he either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true.\n(11) Fails to take proper care of any weapon or uniform of the Home Guards Force issued to him.\n(12) Fails to show, while on duty, proper courtesy to the public; and\n(13) Fails to report in writing to the Platoon Commander any change of his residence for a period exceeding seven days.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Punishment.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) reprimand, (ii) extra guard or fatigue duty, (iii) confinement to barracks, (iv) forfeiture of allowance, (v) suspension, (vi) black mark, (vii) stoppage of increments, (viii) reduction in rank, (ix) removal, (x) dismissal.\nNote. -Particular care and discretion must be exercised before imposing any punishment under clauses (ii) and (iii) which shall not be imposed on Platoon Commanders and higher ranks of officers.\nNote.\n[(ii) Director General, Home Guards, Bihar, Patna will have the power to hear appeal application preferred by appellant within thirty days from the date of communication of the order of punishment passed by the Competent Authority.]\n(iii) Proceeding will be regulated by the general orders of State Government laid down from time to time unless special orders, if any, are issued in this respect",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Rewards.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Superintendence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Inspection by higher authorities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Standing Orders.",
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            "content": "21.\n22.\nFirst Schedule\nList of Gazetted Officers of The Home Guards Force\nList of Gazetted Officers of The Home Guards Force\nList of Non-Gazetted Officers of The Home Guards Force\nList of Non-Gazetted Officers of The Home Guards Force\nForm B\nForm B\n[Rule 7 (3)]\nDischarge Certificate\nPrescribed Authority\nForm C\nForm C\n(Rule 9)\nVerification Roll\n(To be filled in by applicant for the post of a Home Guard officer or men)\nLeft thumb-mark of applicant (To be filled in the presence\n\t\t\t\tof...............)\nSignature of applicant. (To be made in the\n\t\t\t\tpresence of.................)\nSigned in my presence.\nSd. (Prescribed authority.)\nForm D\nForm D\n(See Rule 9)\nRecord of Service\nNo.\n…..\nRank\n…..\nName\n…..\nDate of birth\n…..\nHome address\n…..\nDate of enrolment\n…..\nPresent address\n…..\nCollege (Training Centre)\n…..\nFather's name\n…..\nC/o no.\n…..\nCaste\n…..\nStatement of Training\nYear.\nMusketry.\nParades.\nCamp.\nRemarks.\nTotal held.\nTotal attended\nDuration of\nDays attend.\n1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6\n7\n19 19 19\nPromotion in present or former Corps\nRank.\nDate.\nAuthority.\nCompany Commander.\nClass of Instructions\nRank.\nDuration of the course attended:- From.....\n\t\t\t\tTo.....\nNature of the subject taught at the class.\nAuthority.\nSignature of Company Commander.\nDischarge Certificate\nC/o. No. .................\nGeneral Remarks.\nSignature.\nForm E\nForm E\n(Rule 9)\nMuster Roll\nMuster Roll\nName of post in the acquittance roll of which pay was drawn in\n\t\t\t\tthe month of............\n{\n............Bn. ..............Coy. ...............PL.\nBrass No.\nBank\nName\nRate of pay\nJanuary\nFebruary\nMarch\nApril\nMay\n1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6\n7\n8\n9\nJune\nJuly\nAugust\nSeptember\nOctober\nNovember\nDecember\nAddress\nVillage\nPost Office\nDistrict\n10\n11\n12\n13\n14\n15\n16\n17\n18\n19\nNote. -This should be maintained on a Platton basis.\nNote.\nForm F\nForm F\n[See Rule 12 (2) (i)]\nDistrict Magistrate.\nForm G\nForm G\nBond for Members of the Technical Corps\n(1)\n(2)",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "bh338",
        "Act Number": "Published vide Notification No. E/HG-1801/53-C.-7271, dated 30th July, 1953",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1953",
        "Short Title": "The Bihar Home Guards Rules, 1953",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Bihar"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}