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The Bombay State Reserve Police Force Act, 1951
The Bombay State Reserve Police Force Act, 1951
Sections
1. Short title, extent, commencement and application.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Constitution of the State Reserve Police Force.
Section 34. Superintendence, control and administration of Force.
Section 45. Appointment of Commandant, [Assistant Commandant and Adjutant] .
Section 56. Enrolment.
Section 67. Transfer.
Section 78. Certificate of appointment to certain reserve police officers, when it is to be returned back.
Section 89. General powers of Commandant.
Section 910. General duties of members of State Reserve Police Force.
Section 1011. Reserve police officer to be deemed in charge of police station.
Section 1112. Offence in respect of resignation contrary to provisions.
Section 1213. Offence in respect of refusal to deliver certificate of appointment, etc.
Section 1314. More heinous offences.
Section 1415. Less heinous offences.
Section 1516. Reserve police officer in command to give information of commission of offence under Act by reserve police officer under his charge.
Section 1617. Place of imprisonment and liability to dismissal on imprisonment.
Section 1718. Minor punishments.
Section 1819. Every reserve police officer to be police officer as defined in Bombay XXII of 1951 (Bombay XXII of 1951).
Section 1920. Protection for acts of members of Force.
Section 2021. Power to make rules.
Section 21
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"content": "(a) \"active duty\" means-\n(i) the duty to [prevent or] investigate offences involving a breach of peace or danger to life or property and to search for and apprehend persons concerned in such offences or who are so desperate and dangerous as to render their being at large hazardous to the community;\n(ii) the duty to take all adequate measures for the extinguishing of fires or to prevent damage to person or property on the occasion of such occurrences as fires, floods, earthquakes, enemy action or riots and to restore peace and preserve order on such occasions;\n(iii) such other duty as may be specified to be active duty by the State Government or the Inspector-General in a direction issued under section 10;\n(b) \"Commandant\" and \"Assistant Commandant\" mean respectively persons appointed to those offices by the State Government under section 5;\n(c) \"Commissioner of Police\" and \"Deputy Commissioner\" means respectively a Commissioner of Police and a Deputy Commissioner of Police appointed under the Bombay Police Act, 1951 (Bombay XXII of 1951);\n(d) \"Follower\" means any person appointed to do the work of a cook, mess servant, washerman, cobbler, barber, tailor, sweeper or an orderly in connection with the State Reserve Police Force;\n(e) \"members of the subordinate rules\" means members of the State Reserve Police Force below the rank of [Battalion Commander or Commander of Head Quarters Wing] ;\n(f) \"Police Officer\" means every police officer as defined by the Police Act, 1861 (V of 1861), or the Bombay Police Act, 1951 (Bombay XXII of 1951);\n(g) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(h) \"reserve police officer\" means any member of the State Reserve Police Force established under this Act;\n(i) \"superior officer\" means in relation to any reserve police officer, a reserve police officer of a higher rank than, or of a higher grade in the same class as, or of the same rank as, but senior to, himself;\n(j) the words and expressions used herein and which are defined in the Indian Penal Code (XLV of 1860), the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (V of 1898), and the Bombay Police Act, 1951 (Bombay XXII of 1951), and not hereinbefore defined, shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in those enactments.",
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"content": "Circumstances under which reserve police officer entitled to use force.",
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"content": "(a) begins, excites, causes or conspires to cause or joins in any mutiny, or being present at any mutiny, does not use his utmost endeavours to suppress it by force of arms, if necessary, or knowing, or having reason to believe in, the existence of any mutiny, or of any intention or conspiracy to mutiny or of any conspiracy against the State, does not, without delay, give information thereof to his superior officer present at or near the place; or\n(b) uses, or attempts to use criminal force to, or commits an assault on his superior officer, knowing or having reason to believe him to be such, whether on or off duty; or\n(c) shamefully abandons or delivers up any post, guard, buildings, fortification, or property which is committed to his charge, or which it is his duty to defend; or\n(d) in the presence of any person in arms against whom it is his duty to act, shamefully casts away his arms or ammunition or intentionally uses words or any other means to induce any reserve police officer or any police officer to abstain from acting against any such person in arms, or to discourage such officer from acting against any such person in arms or who is otherwise guilty of cowardice or misbehaviour in the presence of any such person in arms; or\n(e) directly or indirectly holds correspondence with, or communicates intelligence to, or assists, or relieves, any person in arms against the State, or any person conspiring against Government or public security or any person to be arrested, or omits to discover immediately to his superior officer present, any such correspondence or communications coming to his knowledge; or\n(f) directly or indirectly sells, gives away, or otherwise disposes, or agrees to, or assists in, the sale, gift or disposal of any arms, ammunition or equipment to any such person as aforesaid, or knowingly harbours or protects any such person; or\n(g) while on active duty,\n(i) disobeys the lawful command of his superior officer; or\n(ii) deserts his force or his post; or\n(iii) being a sentry, or otherwise detailed to remain alert, sleeps at his post or quits it without being regularly relieved or without leave; or\n(iv) without authority, leaves his Commanding Officer for any purpose whatsoever; or\n(v) uses criminal force to, or commits an assault on, any person whom he has not any reason to believe to be in arms against the State and against whom it is his duty to act, or without authority breaks into any house or other place for plunder or any illegal purpose, or wilfully and unnecessarily plunders, destroys or damages any property of any kind; or\n(vi) intentionally causes or spreads a false alarm, in action or in camp, garrison or quarters, shall on conviction, be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen years and shall also be liable to fine.",
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"content": "(a) assaults or uses or attempts to use criminal force to any sentry; or\n(b) being in command of a guard, picket or patrol refuses to receive any prisoner or person lawfully made over to his charge or whether in such command or not releases any prisoner or person without proper authority or negligently suffers any prisoner or person to escape; or\n(c) being in command of a guard, picket or patrol permits any person belonging to such guard, picket or patrol to engage himself in gambling or other behaviour prejudicial to good order and discipline; or\n(d) being under arrest or in confinement leaves his arrest or confinement before he is set at liberty by lawful authority; or\n(e) is grossly insubordinate to his superior officer in the execution of his office; or\n(f) refuses to superintend or assist in the making or carrying out of any construction of any description ordered to be made either in quarters or in the field; or\n(g) assaults or otherwise ill-uses any reserve police officer with reference to whom he is a superior officer; or\n(h) designedly or through neglect damages or loses or fraudulently or without due authority disposes of his arms, clothes, tools, equipment, ammunition, accoutrements or other necessaries furnished to him for the execution of his office or any such articles entrusted to him or to any other person; or\n(i) malingers, feigns or produces disease or infirmity in himself for intentionally delaying his cure or aggravates his disease or infirmity; or\n(j) with intent to render himself or any other person unfit for duty, voluntarily causes hurt to himself or any other person; or\n(k) commits extortion or without lawful authority extorts from any person carriage, porterage or provisions; or\n(l) wilfully or negligently ill-treats, injures or causes the death of any animal or damages, losses or makes away with any animal or vehicle used in the public service;",
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"title": "18. Minor punishments.",
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"content": "(a) punishment drill, extra guard, fatigue or any other duty for a term which may extend, when the order is passed by the Commandant, to fourteen days, and, when the order is passed by any other officer, to seven days;\n(b) forfeiture of pay and allowances or such proportion of pay and allowances as he considers necessary for a period which may extend, when the order is passed by the Commandant, to one month and, when the order is passed by any other officer, to ten days;\n(c) fine to an amount not exceeding one month's pay:\n(i) no power under this sub-section shall be exercised by a Commandant or Assistant Commandant or other officer not below the rank of Jamadar unless the person to be awarded any of these punishments is under the command of such officer at the time when the breach of discipline or misconduct occurred and also when the power is exercised; and\n(ii) when more than one officer is competent under proviso (i) to exercise the power, the most senior of such offences shall exercise the power.",
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"title": "19. Every reserve police officer to be police officer as defined in Bombay XXII of 1951 (Bombay XXII of 1951).",
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"number": "20",
"title": "20. Protection for acts of members of Force.",
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"number": "21",
"title": "21. Power to make rules.",
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"content": "(a) regulating the number, classes of grades of the State Reserve Police Force;\n(b) administration of the State Reserve Police Force;\n(c) recruitment, organization, classification and discipline of the members of the subordinate ranks;\n(d) inspection of the Force;\n(e) description and quantity of arms, accoutrements, clothing and other necessaries to be furnished to the members of the Force.\n[22. Repeal and Saving.\n(a) the previous operation of the law so repealed, or\n(b) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any of the provisions of the law so repealed, or\n(c) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of such penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid, and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment, may be imposed, as if this Act had not come into force in the relevant part of the State:\nSchedule A\n( See Section 6)\n( See Section 6)\n(1) I am willing to serve, wherever posted, in the State Reserve Police Force,\n(2) I shall not be entitled to resign my appointment in the State Reserve Police Force or to apply for a transfer to any other Police Force until I have completed the prescribed period of service in the State Reserve Police Force, and\n(3) I shall not be entitled to resign my appointment or to apply for the transfer in the manner specified in (2) above even after the completion of the prescribed period of service, if on the relevant date I am on active duty or if my resignation or transfer as the case may be would cause the vacancies in my Group to exceed such percentage of the sanctioned strength of the Group as may for the time being have been prescribed by the State Government.\nSignature in token of the above declaration having been read out and explained to the ................................ declarant and of his having understood ................................. and accepted it. Date............... Place ............. Signed in my presence after I had satisfied myself that (Name in full)..................................................................................................... (designation in the case of a member of a Police Force / full address in the case of a direct recruit\nhaving been read out and explained to the ................................ declarant and of his having understood ................................. and accepted it. Date............... Place .............\ndeclarant and of his having understood ................................. and accepted it. Date...............\nand accepted it.\nSignature..................... Designation of the Officer Commandant or before whom the declaration Assistant Commandant or is signed. Police Officer Date............... Place ............. Schedule B ( See Section 8) Form of Certificate for a State Reserve Police Officer below the rank of a Company Commander.\nDesignation of the Officer Commandant or before whom the declaration Assistant Commandant or is signed. Police Officer Date............... Place .............\nbefore whom the declaration Assistant Commandant or is signed. Police Officer Date...............\nis signed. Police Officer\nSchedule B\n( See Section 8)\n( See Section 8)\n(Signature) ................\nSeal of The Commandant\nSeal of The Commandant\nCommandant\nState Reserve Police Force,\nGroup.............\n.........................",
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