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REGISTERED No. D-(D) -72

The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PART II—Section 1

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 35] NEW DELHI, SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 1978/BHADRA 5, 1900

Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed

as a separate compilation

MINISTRY OF LAW, JUSTICE AND COMPANY AFFAIRS

(Legislative Department)

New Delhi, the 27th August, 1978/Bhadra 5, 1900 (Saka)

The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 27th August, 1978, and is hereby published for general informa- tion : —

THE DELHI POLICE ACT, 1978

No. 34 OF 1978

[27th August, 1978.]

An Act to amend and consolidate the law relating to the regulation of the police in the Union territory of Delhi.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows: —

CHAPTER I

PRELIMINARY

1. (i) This Act may be called the Delhi Police Act, 1978.

(2) It extends to the whole of the Union territory of Delhi.

(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of July,

Short title, extent and com- mence- ment.

1978.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

Deini-. tions.

(a) "Administrator" means the Administrator of Delhi appointed under article 239 of the Constitution;

(425)

(b) "cattle" includes elephants, camels, horses, asses, mules,

"heep, goats and swine;

(c) "competent authority", when used with reference to the exercise of any power or discharge of any duty under the provisions of this Act, means the Commissioner of Police appointed under section 6 or any other police officer specially empowered in that be- half by the Central Government;

(d) "constable" mieans a police officer of the lowest grade;

(e) "Corporation" means the Municipal Corporation of Delhi

68 0* 1957, constituted under the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957;

(f) "Delhi" means the Union territory of Delhi;

(g) "Delhi police" or "police force" means the police force

referred to in section 3 and includes—

(i) all persons appointed as special police officers under subjection (1) of section 17 and additional police officers appointed under section 18; and

(ii) all other persons, by whatever name known, who

exercise any police function in any part of Delhi;

(7i) "eating house" means any place to which the public are admitted and where any kind of food or drink is supplied for con- sumption on the premises by any person owning, or having any inte- rest in, or managing, such place and includes—

(i) a refreshment room, boarding house or coffee house, or

(ii) a shop where any kind of food or drink is supplied to

the public for consumption in or near such shop,

but does not include a place of public entertainment;

(i) "municipality" means the New Delhi Municipal Com- mittee, the Cantonment Board or any other municipal body, other than the Corporation, established by or under any law for the time being in force in or any part of Delhi;

(7) "place" includes—

(i) any building, tent, booth or other erection, whether

permanent or temporary; and

(ii) any ama, whether enclosed or open;

(7c) "place of public amusement" means any place where music, singing, dancing or game or any other amusement, diversion, or recreation or the means of carrying on the same is provided, to which the public are admitted either on payment of money or with the intention that money may be collected from thiose admitted and includes a race course, circus, theatre, music hall, billiard or bagatelle room, gymnasium, fencing school, swimming pool or dancing hall;

(I) "place of public entertainment" means a lodging house, Doarding and lodging house or residential hostel and includes any eating house or other Dlace in which any kind of liquor or Intoxi- cating drug is supplifd (such as a tavern or a shop where beer,

spirit, arrack, toddy, ganja, bhang or opium is supplied) to the public for consumption in lor near such place;

(m) "police officer" means any member of the Delhi police;

(n) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules;

(0) "public place" means any place to which the public have access, whether as of right or not, and includes—

(i) a public building and monument and precincts thereof;

and

(ii) any place accessible to the public for drawing water, washing or bathing or for purposes of recreation;

(p) "regulations" means regulations made under this Act;

(q) "rules;" means rules made under this Act;

(r) "street" includes any highway, bridge, way over a cause- way, viaduct or arch or any road, lane, footway, square, court, alley or passage accessible to the public, whethjer or not it is a thoroughfare;

(3) "subordinate ranks" means members of the police force of and below the rank of the Inspector;

(t) "vehicle" means any carriage, cart, van, dray, truck, hand- cart or other conveyance of any description and includes a bicycle, tricycle, a rickshaw, a motor vehicle, a vessel or an aeroplane.

CHAPTER II

ORGANISATION, SUPERINTENDJENCE AND CONTROL OF THE POLICE FORCE

3. There shall be one police force for the whole of Delhi and all offi- cers and subordinate ranks of the police force shall be liable for posting to any branch of the force including the Delhi Armed Police,

One police forco for the whole of Delhi.

4. The superintendence of the Delhi police throughout Delhi shall vest in, and be exercisable by the Administrator and any control, direc- tion or supervision exercisable by any officer over any member of the police force shall be exercisable subject to such superintendence.

Superin- tendence of police force to vest in the Admi- niatrator.

5. Subject to the provisions of this Adt,—

Constitu- tion of police force.

(a) the Delhi police shall consist of such number in the several ranks and have such organisation and such powers, functions and duties as the Administrator may, by general or special order, deter- mine; and

(h) the recruitment to, and the pay, allowances and all other con- ditions of service of the members of, the Delhi police shall be such as may be prescribed:

Provided that nothing in clause (b) shall apply to be recruitment to, and the pay, allowances and other conditions of service of the members of the Indian Police Service or the Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Police Service.

Commis. •loner of Police.

6. For the direction and supervision of the police "force in Delhi, tho Administrator shall appoint a Commissioner of Police who shall exercise and perform such powers and duties and perform such functions as are specified by or under this Act.

1. (I) The Administrator may appoint one or more Additional Com-

missioners of Police for the purposes of this Act.

Additional Commis- sioner of Police.

(2) The Additional Commissioner of Police shall—

(o) assist the Commissioner of Police in the exercise of his powers and the performance of his duties in such manner and to such extent, and

(b) exercise such powers and perform such duties of the Com-

missioner of Police and within such local limits,

as the Administrator may, by general or special order, specify.

8. (J) The Administrator may appoint one or more Deputy Commission- ers of Police or Additional Deputy Commissioners of Police or Assistant Commissioners of Police for the purposes of this Act.

Deputy, Additional Deputy and Assistant Commis- sioners of Police.

(2) Without prejudice to the other provisions of this Act and subject to any general or special orders made by the Administrator in this behalf, every Deputy Commissioner of Police or Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police or Assistant Commisioncr of Police shall, under the orders of the Commissioner of Police, exercise such of the powers (except the power to make regulations*) and perform such of the duties of the Commissioner of

, Police and within such local limits as may be specified in such orders.

9. (/) (a) The Administrator shall appoint a police officer not below the rank of a Deputy Commissioner of Police to be the Principal of the Police Training School for Delhi,

Appoint- ment of Principals of Police training institu- tions.

(b) The Commission of Police may be general or special order assign to the Principal of the Police Training School such powers and duties as he may deem fit for the proper functioning of that School.

(2) (a) The Administrator may etablish a Police Training College for Delhi and appoint a police officer of appropriate rank to be the Principal of such College.

(b) The Commissioner of Police may be general or special order assign to the Principal of the Police Training College such powers and duties as he may deem fit for the proper administration of that College.

10. Subject to the control of the Administrator, the Commissioner of

Police shall—

(a) constitute police districts within Delhi;

Consti- tution of police districts, sub-divi-

sions and

(b) divide such police districts into police sub-divisions and specify the police stations comprised in each such sub-division; and

police stations.

(c) define the limits and extent of such police districts, police

sub-divisions and police stations.

Officerg in charge of police _ districts, police sub- divisions and police stations.

Appoint- ment of subordi- nate ranks.

Certificate of ap. point- ment.

Effect of suspension of police officer.

General powers of Commis- sioner of Police.

Power of Commis- sioner of Police to investigate and regu- late mat- ters of police ac- counts.

Special police officers.

fit, to be a special police oilier to assist the Delhi police on any occasion, when he hat reason {o apprehend the occurrence of any riot oi grave dis- turbance of the pear in any area and he is of opinion that iho ordinary police, foicc is not .suliicii-nt for the protection of persons residing, and for the security of property, within such area.

(2) The Commissioner of Police shall publish the names of special police officers appointed under this section in such manner as may be prescribed.

(3) Any person objecting to the appointment of any person as such special police officer may send his reasons for such objection to the Com- missioner of Police within fifteen days of such appointment and the Com- missioner may accept such objection and cancel the appointment of such officer or, aftei giving to the objector an opportunity to be heard, reject the objection.

(4) Every special police officer appointed under this section shall, on appointment—

(a) receive a certificate of appointment in such form as may be specified by the Administrator in this behalf;

(b) have the same powers, privileges and immunities and perform the same duties and be subject to the same authorities as an ordinary police officer.

Additional police officers.

18. Where additional police officers are required to be deputed under section 38, section 39 or sedion 40 the Commissioner of Police may appoint such number of additional police officers as he considers necessary and every such addtional police officer shall, on appointment,—

(a) receive a certificate of appointment in such form as may be specified by the administrator in this behalf;

(h) have such of the powers, privileges and immunities and per- form such of the duties of a police officer as are specifically mentioned in the certificate; and

(c) be subject to the same authorities as an ordinary police officer of the same or similar rank or grade.

CHAPTER III

REGULATION, CONTROL AND DISCIPLINE OF THE L>ELHI POLICE

19. Subject to the orders of the) Administrator, the Commissioner of Police may make regulations not inconsistent with this Act or any other law for the time being in force—

(a) regulating the inspection of the police! force by his subordi-

nates;

Framing of regula- tions for adminis- tration of the police.

(b) determining the description and quantity of arms, accoutre-

ments, clothing and other necessaries to be furnished to the police;

(c) prescribing the places of residence of members of the police force;

(d) for institution, management and regulation of any police

fund for any purpose connected with police administraiion;

(e) regulating the distribution, movements and location of the

police;

(f) assigning duties to police officers of all ranks and grades, and prescribing the manner in which, and the conditions subject to which they shall exercise and perform their respective powers and duties;

(g) regulating the collection and communication by the police

of intelligence and information;

(h) generally, for the purpose of rendering the police efficient

and preventing abuse or neglect of their duties.

20, The Commissioner of Police may call for such returns, reports and statements on any subject connected with the prevention and detection, of crime, the maintenance of order and the performance of the duties of his subordinates as such subordinates may be able to furnish to him.

Commis- sioner of Foiice may call for returns.

Powers of punish- ment.

21. (1) Subject to the provisions of article 311 of the Constitution and the rules, the Commissioner of Police, Additional Commissioner of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Principal of the Police Training College or of the Police Train- ing School or any other officer of equivalent rank, may award to any police officer of subordinate rank any of the following punishments, namely: —

(a) dismissal;

(b) removal from service;

(c) reduction in rank;

(d) forfeiture of approved service;

(e) reduction in pay;

(/) withholding lof increment; and

(9) fine not exceeding one month's pay.

(2) Subject to the rules—

(a) any police officer specified in sub-section (1) may award the

punishment of censure to any police officer of subordinate rank;

(5) the Assistant Commissioner of Police may award the punish- ment lof censure to police officers of, or below, the rank of Sub- Inspectors of Police;

(C) any police officer of, and above, the rank of Inspector may award punishment drill not exceeding fifteen days or fatigue duty or any other punitive duty to constables.

(3) Nothing in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) shall affect any police officer's liability for prosecution and punishment for any offence committed by him.

(4) The Commissioner of Police, Additional Commissioner of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Principal of the Police Training College or of the Police Training School, Assistant Commissioner of Police, or any other police officer of equivalent rank may suspend any police officer of subordinate rank who

is reasonably suspected to be guilty of misconduct, pending an investiga- tion or enquiry into such misconduct.

(5) An Inspector of Police may suspend any police officer below the rank of Sub-Inspector of Police, who is reasonably suspected to be guilty of misconduct, pending an investigation or enquiry into such misconduct.

Procedura for awarding punish- ments.

22. When any officer passes an order of awarding a punishment of dismissal, removal from service, reduction in rank, forfeiture of ser- vice, reduction in pay, withholding of increments or fine, he shall record such order or cause the same to be recorded together with the reasons therefor, in accordance with the rules.

23. An appeal against any order of punishment passed against a police officer under section 21 or the rules thereunder [not being an order of punishment under clause (c) of sub-section (2) of that section] shall lie-—

Appeal from orders of punish- ment,

(a) where the order is passed by the Commissioner of Police,

to the Administrator;

(b) where the order is passed by an Additional Commissioner

of Police, to the Commissioner of Police;

(c) where the order is passed by a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Polica, Principal of the Police Training College or School, Assistant Commissioner of Police or any other officer of equivalent rank, to the Additional Commis- sioner of Police.

24. Every police officer not on leave or under suspension shall for all purposes of this Act be deemed to be always on duty and any police officer or any number or body of police officers allocated for duty in any part of Delhi may, if the Commissioner ni Police so directs, at any time, be employed on police duty in any other part of Delhi for so long as the services of the police officer or number or body of police officers may be required in such other part of Delhi.

25. (0 Resignation of any police officer of subordinate rank may be accepted only bv tV* officer empowered to appoint (the officer so em- powered to appoint being hereafter in this section referred to as the appointing authority) officers of such subordinate rank.

Police offi- cers to be d coined to be always on duty and to be liable to employ- ment in any part at Delhi. Circums- tances under which police officer of subordi- nate rank may resign.

(2) A police officer of subordinate rank who intends to resign from police service shall give to the appointing authority notice in writing to that effect and shall not be permitted to withdraw himself from dutv unless he has been granted permission 1o resign by such authority and two mnnths have elapsed from the date on which he tendered his resig- nation:

Provided that the appointing authority may at his discretion, permit a Head Constable or a constable to withdraw himself from duty on his crediting to the Government two months' pay in lieu of notice.

(3) A Head Constable or a constable who has agreed to serve for any specific period may not be permitted to resign before the expiry of that period.

(4) Inspectors, Sub-Inspectors or Assistant Sub-Inspectors of Police, whose appointments involve training at any Police Training College or

Police Training School may not be permitted to resign within three years from the date of their successfully completing the training.

(5) No police officer of subordinate rank whose resignation has been accepted by the appointing authority shall be permitted to withdraw from duty until he has fully discharged all debts, due from him as such police officer to Government or to any police fund and has surrendered his certificate of appointment, arms, accoutrements, uniform and all other Government property in his possession and has also rendered a complete account of all Government money and property for which he is responsible.

(fi) Notwithstanding mything contained in this section if any police officer of subordinate rank tenders his resignation' on medical grounds and produces a certificate signed by the police surgeon or any other medical officer authorised by the Administrator in this behalf declaring him to be unfit by reason of disease or mental or physical incapacity for further service in the police, the appointing authority shall forthwith permit him to withdraw from duty on his discharging, ior giving a satisfactory security for the payment of, any debt due from him as such police officer to Government or to any police fund;

Provided that he shall forthwith return the certificate of appoint- ment, arms, accoutrements, uniform and all other Government pro- perty in his possession before he is permitted to withdraw from duty.

(7) If any such police officer of subordinate rank resigns or withdraws himself from the duties of his office in contravention of this section, he shall be liable on the orders of the appointing authority to forfeit all arrears of pay then due to him in addition to the penalty to wh'ch he may be liable under section 22 or any other law for the time being in force.

(8) Every such police officer on leaving the service in the Delhi police as aforesaid shall be given by the appointing authority a Discharge Certificate in such form as may be prescribed.

Certifi- cate, arms, etc, to be

26. (1) Every person who for any reason ceases to be n poTlec officer shall forthwith deliver to thp officer empowered by the Commissioner of Police, the Additional Commissioner of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police Principal of the Police Training College or of the Police Training School Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police or any other officer of equivalent rank to whom such officer is subordinate, to receive the same, his certificate of appointment and the arms, accoutrements, cloth- ing and other accessories which have been provided to him for the per- formance of duties and functions connected with his office.

(2) (a) Any Metropolitan Magistrate and, for special reasons which shall be recorded in writing at the time, thp Commissioner of Police, Additional Commissioner of Police, Principal of the Police Training Col- lege or of the Police Training School or a Deputy Commissioner, Addi- tional Deputy Commissioner or an Assistant Commissioner of Police may Issue a warrant to search for and seize wherever they be found, anv certificate, arms, accoutrements, clothing or other accessories not deli- vered under sub-section (T).

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(b) Every warrant so issued shall be executed by a police officer or, if the Metropolitan Magistrate or the police officer issuing the warrant so directs, by any other person in the same manner as if it were a warrant for a search issued under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

(3) Nothing in this section shall apply in relation to any article which under the orders of the Commissioner of Police has become the property of the person to whom the same was provided.

27. (J) A police officer occupying any premises provided by the Com- missioner of Police for his residence shall—

(a) occupy the same subject to such terms and conditions as may, by general or special order, be specified by the Commissioner of Police; and

Occupa- Uon of, and liability to vacate7 premises provided for police officers.

(b) notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, vacate the same on his ceasing to be a police officer or whenever the Commissioner of Police or any officer authorised by the Administrator in this behalf considers it, for reasons to be re- corded in writing, necessary and expedient to require him to do so.

(2) If any person who is bound or required under sub-section (1) to vacate any premises fails to do so, the Administrator or the officer au- thorised in this behalf by the Administrator may order such person to vacate the premises and may direct any police officer with such assist- ance as may be necessary to enter upon the premises and remove there- from any person found therein and to take possession of the premises and deliver the same to any person specified in the direction.

CHAPTER IV

POLICE HEGULATIONS

28. (1) The Commissioner of Police may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make regulations to provide for all or any of the following mat- ters, namely: —

(a) licensing and controlling persons offering themselves for employment, outside railway stations and other places where pas- sengers arrive, for the carriage of passengers' baggages and fixing and providing for the enforcement of a scale of charges for the labour of such persons so employed;

Power to make regula- tions for regulat- ing traffic and for preserva- tion of order in public places, etc.

(b) regulating traffic of all kinds in streets and other public places, and the use of streets and other public places by persons rid- ing, driving, cycling, walking or leading or accompanying cattle, so as to prevent danger, obstruction or inconvenience to the public;

(t) regulating the conditions under which vehicles may remain standing m streets and other public places, and the use of streets as halting places for vehicles or cattle;

(d) specifying the number and position of lights to be used on vehicles in streets and the hours between which such lights should be used;

(e) licensing, controlling or prohibiting the erection, exhibition, fixation or retention of any sign, device or representation for the

purpose of advertisement, which is visible against the sky from some point in any street and is hoisted or held aloft over any land, build- ing or structure at such height as may be specified in the regulations, having regard to the traffic in the vicinity, and the likelihood of such sign, device or representation at that height being a distraction, or causing obstruction, to such traffic;

(f) specifying certain hours of the day duiing which cattle shall not be driven, or, as the case may be, driven only in accordance with such regulations, along the streets, or along certain specified streets;

(g) regulating the leading, driving, conducting or conveying of any elephant or wild or dangerous animal through or in any street;

(h) regulating and controlling the manner and mode of convey- ing timber, scaffold poles, ladders, iron girders, beams or bars, boil- ers, or other unwieldy articles through the streets, and the route and hours for such conveyance;

(i) licensing, controlling or, in order to prevent obstruction, in- convenience, annoyance, risk, danger or damage to the residents or passengers in the vicinity, prohibiting the carrying in streets and public places of gunpowder or any other explosive substance;

(j) prohibiting, except along certain specified streets and during specified hours and subject to such conditions as may be specified in that behalf, the exposure or movement in any street of persons or animals suffering from contagious or- infectious diseases, the carcasses of animals or parts of such carcasses or corpses of per- sons deceased;

(7c) specifying certain hours of the day during which ordure or offensive matter or objects shall not be taken from or into houses or buildings in certain streets or conveyed through such streets except in accordance with such regulations;

(I) setting apart places for slaughtering animals, the cleaning of carcasses or hides, the deposit of noxious or offensive matter and for obeying calls of nature;

(m) in cases of existing or apprehended epidemic or infectious disease of men or animals, the cleanliness and disinfection of premises by the occupier thereof and residents therein and the segregation and management of the persons or animals diseased or supposed to be diseased, as may have been directed or approved by the Admini- strator, with a view to prevent the disease or check the spread thereof;

(n) directing the closing or disuse, wholly or¹ for certain pur- poses, or limiting to certain purposes only, the use of any source, supply or receptacle of water and providing against pollution of the same or of the water therein;

(0) licensing, controlling or, in order to prevent obstruction, In- convenience, annoyance, risk, danger or damage to the residents or passengers in the vicinity, prohibiting the playing of music, the beat- Ing of drums, tom-toms or other instruments and the blowing or Bounding of horns or other noisy instruments in or near streets ox other public places;

(p) regulating the conduct of or behaviour or action of per- sons constituting assemblies and processions on or along the streets and specifying in the case of processions, the routes by which, the order in which, and the times at which, the same may pass;

(q) prohibiting the hanging or placing of any cord or pole across a street or part thereof, or the making of a projection or structure BO as to obstruct traffic or the free access of light and air;

(r) prohibiting, except in accordance with such regulations, the placing of building materials or other articles or the fastening or detention of any horse or other animals in any street or public place;

(s) licensing, controlling or, in order to prevent obstruction, in- convenience, annoyance, risk, danger or damage to the lesidents or passengers in the vicinity, prohibiting—

(i) the illumination of streets and public placesi and the exteriors of building abutting thereon by persons other than ser- vants: of Government or Corporation or other Municipal officers duly authorised in that behalf,

(ii) the blasting of rock or making excavations in or near

streets or public places,

(in) the using of a loudspeaker in or near any public place

or in any place of public entertainment;

(t) closing certain streets or places temporarily, in cases of dan- ger from ruinous buildings or other cause, with such exceptions as shall appear reasonable;

(u) guarding against injury to person and property in the con- struction, repair and demolition of buildings, platforms and other structures from which danger may arise to passengers, neighbours or the public;

(v) prohibiting the setting of fire to or burning of any straw oi other matter, or lighting a bonfire or wantonly discharging a fire-arm or air-gun, or letting off or throwing a fire work or, sending up a fire baloon or rocket in or upon a street or within fifty feet of a street or building or the putting up of any post or other thing on the side of or across a street for the purpose of affixing thereto lamps or other contrivances for illumination, except in accordance with regulations in this behalf;

(w) regulating ihe hours during which and the manner in which any place for the disposal of the dead, any dliarmashala, village-gate or other place of public resort may be used, so as to secure the equal and appropriate application of its advantages and accommodation and to maintain orderly conduct amongst those who reaort thereto;

(x) (;) licensing or controlling places of public amusement or

public entertainment;

(ii) prohibiting the keeping of places of public amusement or public entertainment or assembly, in order to prevent obstruction, Inconvenience, annoyance, risk, danger or damage to the resident! or passengers in the vicinity; and

(iii) regulating the means of entrance and exit at places of pub- lic amusement or public entertainment or assembly and providing for the maintenance of public order and the prevention of disturbance thereat;

(y) (i) licensing or controlling in the interest of public drdef( decency or morality or in the interest of the general public (with such exceptions as may be specified in such regulations), musical, dancing, mimetic or theatrical or other performances for public am- usement, including melas;

(ii) regulating in the interest of public order, decency or mora- lity or in the interest of the general public, the employment of artists and the conduct of the artists and the audience at such performances;

(iii) prior sciutiny of such performances and of the scripts in respect thereof, if any, and granting of suitability certificate there- for subject to conditions, if any, by a Board appointed by the Admi- nistrator for the purpose, either for the whole of Delhi or for the area concerned or by an Advisory Committee constituted by the Com- missioner of Police (the members of the Board or the Advisory Com- mittee being persons who in the opinion of the Administrator or, as the case may be, the Commissioner, possess knowledge of, or experi- ence 1 in, literature, the theatre and other matters relevant to such scrutiny), provision for appeal against the order or decision of the Board or the Advisory Committee to an appellate autho- rity, its appointment or constitution, its procedure and other matters ancillary thereto, and the fees (whether in the form of court-fee stamps or otherwise) to be charged for the scrutiny of such perfor- mances or scripts, for applications for obtaining such certificates and for issuing duplicates thereof and in respect of such appeals and any such performances and of the scripts in respect thereof granted suitability certificate by any State shall be exempted from this sec- tion;

(iu) regulating the hours during which and the places at which such performances may be given;

(z) regulating or prohibiting the sale of any ticket or pass for admission, by whatever name called, to a place of public amuse- ment;

(za) registration of eating houses, including granting a certi- ficate iof registration in each case, which shall be deemed to be a written permission required and obtained under this Act for keeping the eating house, and annual renewal of such registration within a specified period;

(zb) prescribing the procedure in accordance with which any licence or permission sought to be obtained or required under this Act should be applied for and fixing the fees to be charged for any such licence or permission:

Provided that nothing in this section and no licence or certificate of registration granted under any regulation made thereunder shall autho- rise any person to import, export, transport, manufacture, sell or

possess any liquor, or intoxicating drug, in respect of which a licence, permit, pass or authorisation is required under any law relating to prohi- bition which is for the time being in force.

(2) The power to make regulations under clause (b) of siib-section (1) shall be subject to the control of the Administrator and the power to make regulations under the other clauses of that sub-section shall be subject to the previous sanction of the Administrator.

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(3) The power of making regulations under this section shall be subject to the condition of the regulations being made, after previous publication and for the purposes of section 23 of the General Clauses Act, 1897 such regulations shall be deemed to be rules; and every regulation made, under this section, shall also be pub- dished in the locality affected thereby by affixing copies thereof in conspicuous places near to the building, structure, work or place, as the case may be, to which the same specially relates or by proclaiming the same by the beating of drum or by advertising the same in such local newspapers in Hindi, Urdu and English, or in two or more of these languages, as the Commissioner of Police may deem fit, or by any two or more of these means, or by any other means he may think suitable:

Provided that any such regulation may be made without previous publication if the Commissioner of Police is satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary that such regulation should be brought into force at once.

(4) If any regulation made under this section relates to any matter with respect to which there is a provision in any law, rule or bye-law of the Corporation or of any other municipal or local autliority in rela- tion to public health, convenience or safety of the locality such regulation shall be subject to such law, rule or bye-law.

Power to give directions to the public.

(e) regulate and control the playing of music, singing or the beating of drums, tom-toms and other instruments and the blowing or sounding of horns or other noisy instruments in, and near, any street or public place;

(f) regulate and aontrol the use of loudspeakers in residential areas, streets, near any public places and places of public amuse- ment or public entertainment; or

(fil) make reasonable orders consequential to, and in further- ance of, any order made under this section.

30. (1) The Commissioner of Police may, whenever and for such time as he shall consider necessary for the preservation of public peace or public safety, by notification publicly promulgated or addressed to Individuals, prohibit, in relation to the whole of Delhi or any part thereof,—

Power to prohibit certain act3 for preven- tion of disorder.

(a) the carrying of arms, cudgels, swords, spears, bludgeons, guns, knives, sticks or lathis, or any other article, which is capable of being used for causing physical violence;

(b) the carrying of any corrosive substance or explosives;

(c) the carrying, collection or preparation of stones or other missiles or instruments or means of casting or impelling missiles;

(d) the exhibition of persons or corpses;

(e) the public utterance of cries, singing of songs or playing of music; or

(f) the delivery of harangues, the use of gestures or mimetic re- presentations, and the preparation, exhibition or dissemination of pic- tures, symbols, placards or any other subject or thing which may, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Police, offend against decency or morality or undermine the security of the State.

(2) If any person goes armed with any such article as is referred to in clause (a) of sub-section (1) or carries any corrosive substance or explosive or missile or instrument in contravention of any prohibition under that sub-section, the article, corrosive substance or explosive or missile shall be liable to be seized from him by any police officer.

(3) The Commissioner of Police may, by notification publicly promMl- gatcd prohibit any assembly or procession whenever and for such time as he considers such prohibition to be necessary for the preservation of the public order.

(4) No notification promulgated under sub-section (3) shall rema'n in force for more than fifteen days from the promulgation thereof:

Provided that if the Administrator considers it necessary so to do for the preservation of the public order he may, by order published in the Official Gazette, direct that such notification shall remain In force for such further period not exceeding six months from the date on which it would have, but for such order, expired ag he may specify in the said order.

Police to provide against disorder, etc., at places of public amuse- ment or public assembly

or meet-

ing

31, (1) For the purpose of preventing serious disorder or breach of the law or manifest and imminent danger to the persons assembled at any place of public amusement or at any assembly or meeting to which the public are invited or which is open to the public, any police qfflcer of the rank of Assistant Sub-Inspector and above, present at such place of public amusement, or such assembly or meeting, may subject to such rules, regulations and orders as may have been lawfully made, give such reasonable directions as to the mode of admission of tht public to, and for securing the peaceful and lawful conduct of the proceedings and the maintenance of the public safety at, such place of amusement or such assembly or meeting as he thinks necessary and all persons shall be bound to conform to every such reasonable direction.

(2) Every police officer shall have free access to every place of public amusement, assembly or meeting for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of sub-section (1) and to any direction made thereunder.

Power to prohibit, etc., con- tinuance of music, sound or

noise.

32. (1) If the Commissioner of Police is satisfied from the report of an officer in charge of a Police Station, or other information received by him, that it is necessary to do so in order to prevent annoyance, disturbance, discomfort or injury, or risk of annoyance, disturbance, dis- comfort or injury, to the public or to any person who dwells, or occupies property, in the vicinity, he may, by written order, issue such directions as he may consider necessary to any person for preventing, prohibiting, controlling or regulating—

(a) the incidence or continuance in any street, open space or

any other premises of—

(i) any vocal or instrumental music;

(ii) sounds caused by the playing, beating, clashing, blow- ing or use in any manner whatsoever of any instrument, appli- ance or apparatus ior contrivance which is capable of pro- ducing or reproducing sound; or

(in) use of loudspeaker or other apparatus for amplifying any musical or other sound at such pitch or volume as may cause disturbance to others, or

(b) the carrying ion, in any premises, of any trade, avocation

or operation resulting in or attended with noise:

Provided that no directions shall be issued to any person under clause (b) without giving to such person an opportunity of being heard in the matter.

(2) The Commissioner of Police may, either on his own motion or on the application of any person aggrieved by an order made under subjection (2), either rescind, modify or alter any such order:

Provided that before any such application is disposed of, the Com- missioner of Police shall afford to the applicant an opportunity of appearing before him either in person or by counsel and showing cause against the order and shall, if he rejects any such application either wholly or in part, record the reasons for such rejection.

Issue of order for preven- tion of riot, etc. 33. (1) In order to prevent or suppress any riot or grave distur- bance of peace, the Commissioner of Police may temporarily close or take possession of any building or other place and may exclude all or any persons therefrom, or may allow access thereto to such persons only and on such terms as he shall deem expedient and all persons concerned shall be bound to conduct themselves in accordance with such orders as the Commissioner of Police may make and notify in exer- cise of his powers under this section.

(2) If the lawful occupant of such building or place suffers any loss or injury by reason o£ the action taken under sub-section (1), he shall be entitled, on an application made therefor to the competent authority within 0112 month from the date of such action, to receive reasonable compensation for such loss or injury, unless such action was in the opinion of such competent authority rendered necessary either by the use to wtuch such building or place was put, or intended to be put, or by the misconduct of persons having access thereto.

(3) In the event of any dispute in relation to the amount of com- pensation payable under sub-section (2) or the person to whom such amount shall be payable, the matter shall be referred by the competent authority to the District Collector whose decision thereon shall be final.

Mainten- ance of order at religiouf or ceremo- nial display^ etc. 34. (1) In any case of an actual or intended religious or ceremonial or corporate display or exhibition or organised assemblage In any street or public place, as to which or the conduct of, or participation in, which, it shall appear to the competent authority that a dispute or contention exists, which is likely to lead to grave disturbance of the peace, ithe competent authority may give such orders as to the con- duct of the persons concerned towards each other and towards the public as it shall deem necessary and reasonable under the circum- stances, regard being had to the apparent legal rights and to any established practice of the parties and of the persons interested and all persons concerned shall obey such orders.

(2) Every such order shall be published in the locality or place

wherein it is to operate.

(3) Every order under subjection (1) shall be subject to any judgment, decree, injunction or order made by a court having jurisdiction, and shall be rescinded or altered on its being made to appear to the com- petent authority that such order is inconsistent with a judgment, decree, injunction or order of such court.

Commis- sioner of Police may take special measures to prevent" outbreak of epide- mic disease at fairs, etc. 35. (1) Whenever it shall appear to the Commissioner of Police that any place in Delhi (being a place where on account of a pilgrimage, fair or other such occurrence, large bodies iof persons have assembled or are likely to assemble) is visited or likely to be visited with an outbreak of any epidemic disease, he may in consultation with the Corporation or municipality within the local limits of the jurisdiction whereof such place is situated take such special measures and may by a public notice prescribe such regulations to be observed by residents of the said place and persons present thereat or repairing thereto or returning therefrom as he deems necessary to prevent the outbreak of fuch disease or the spread thereof.

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(2) The expenses incurred by the Commissioner of Police in respect of the arrangements for sanitation and the preservation of order at or about the place of assembly referred to in sub-section (1) may be recovered from the Corporation or the municipality concerned.

36. (1) The Commissioner of Police may, by public notice, tempo- rarily reserve for any public purpose any street or other public place and prohibit persons from entering the area so reserved, except on such conditions as may be specified by him.

(2) The Commissioner of Police may, whenever in his opinion Buch

action is necessary,—

Power to reserve Btreet or •thei public place for public purpose and power to authorise erecting of bar. riera in streets.

(a) authorise such police officer as he thinks fit to erect barriers on any street for the purpose of stopping temporarily vehicles driven on such street so as to satisfy himself that the pro- visions of any law for the time being in force have not been con- travened in respect of any such vehicle or by the driver or the person in charge of such vehicle; and

(b) make such orders as he deems fit for regulating the use

of such barriers.

37. (1) The Commissioner of Police may, from time to time, make regulations prohibiting the disposal of the dead, whether by cremation, burial or otherwise at places other than those set apart for such purpose:

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Provided that no such regulations shall be made in respect of any

area for which places have not been so set apart:

Power to make regula- tions pro- hibiting disposal of the dead except at places set apart.

Provided further that the Commissioner of Police or any officer authorised by him in this behalf may, in his discretion, on an applica- tion made to him by any person, grant to such person permission to dispose of the corpse of any deceased person ai; any place other than a place so set apart, if in his opinion such disposal is not likely to cause obstruction to traffic or disturbance of the public peace or is noit objec- tionable for any other reason.

(2) Any regulations made under sub-section (1) shall specify the places set apart for the disposal of the dead of different communities or sections of communities.

(3) All such regulations shall be deemed to be rules for the purposes

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of section 23 of the General Clauses Act, 1897 and shall be subject to the conditions of> previous publication and the date to be specified under clause (3) of that section shall not be earlier than (two months from the date on which the draft of the proposed regulations is published.

CHAPTER V

SPECIAL MEASURES FOR MAINTENANCE or PUBUC ORDER AND SECURITY OP

STATE

38. (1) The Commissioner of Police may, on the application of any person, depute any additional number of police to keep the peace, to preserve order, to enforce any of the provisions of this Act or of any other law in respect of any particular class or classes of offences or to perform any other duties imposed on the police at any place in Delhi.

Employ- ment of additional police to keep peace.

(2) Such additional police shall be employed at the coat (which shall be determined by the Commissioner of Police in accordance with the rules made in this behalf) of the person making the application, but shall be subject to the orders of the police authorities and shall be employed for such period as the Commissioner of Police considers necessary.

(3) If the person upon whose application such additional police are employed shall at any time make a written requisition to the Commis- sioner of Police for the withdrawal of the said police he shall be relieved from the cost thereof at the expiration of such period not exceeding one week from the date of the delivery of such requisition as the Commissioner of Police shall determine.

(4) Where there is any dispute as to the amount to be paid by way of cost, the Commissioner of Police shall, on an application made in that behalf by the aggrieved party, refer the matter to the District Collector, whose decision thereon shall be final.

Employ- ment of additional police in cases of special danger to public peace.

3ft. (i) If in the opinion of the Administrator any area in Delhi is in a disturbed or dangerous condition or the conduct of the inhabitants or of any particular section or class of the inhabitants of such area renders it expedient to employ temporarily additional police in the area, he may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify the area (hereafter in this section referred to as the disturbed area) in which, and the period for which, the additional police shall be employed and thereupon the Commissioner of Police shall depute such number of additional police officers as he considers necessary, in the disturbed area:

Provided that the period so specified may be extended by the Administrator from time to time, if in his opinion it is necessary so to do in the interests of the public.

(2) On the issue of a notification under sub-section (2), the Administrator may require the District Collector, or any other authority specified by the Administrator, to recover, whether in whole or in part, the cost of such additional police generally from all persons who are inhabitants of the disturbed area or specially from any particular section or class of such persons, and in such proportion as the Adminis- trator may direct.

(3) It shall be lawful for the Administrator to exempt, by order in writing, and for sufficient reasons, any person from liability to bear any portion of the cost of such additional police.

Explanation.—In this section and in section 41, the expression "inhabitants", when used in relation to any disturbed area, includes persons who themselves or by their agents or servants occupy or hold land or other immovable property within such area and landlords who themselves or by their agents or servants collect rent from holders or occupants of land in such area notwithstanding that they do not actually reside therein.

40. (J) Whenever it appears to the Administrator or to the compe-

tent authority that—

(a) any large work which is being carried on or any public amusement which is being conducted in any place is likely to impede the traffic or to attract a large number of people; or

(b) the behaviour or a reasonable apprehension of the behaviour of the persons employed on any railway, canal or other public work, or in or upon any manufactory or other commercial concern, under construction or in operation at any place necessitates the employment or additional police at such place,

Employ, ment of additional police at large work and when apprehen- sion regarding behaviour of em. ployees exists.

the Administrator, or the competent authority, as the case may be, may depute such number of additional police to the said place for so long as the necessity to employ the additional police shall appear to the Adminis- trator or the competent author.ty to continue.

(2) Such additional police shall be employed at the cost of the person by whom the work, public amusement, manufactory or concern is being constructed, conducted or carried on and the ; aid person shall pay the costs therefor at such rates as the Administrator or the competent autho- rity, as the case may be, shall from time to timi require.

Compen- sation for injury caused by unlawful assembly how reco- verable

41. (1) When any loss or damage is caused to any property or when death results or grievous hurt is caused to any person or persons, by anything done in the prosecution of the common object of an unlawful assembly, the Administrator may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify the area (hereafter in this section called the "disturbed area") In whicn, and the date on which or the period during which, such un- lawful assembly was, in his opinion, held.

(2) On the issue of a notification under sub-section (1), the District Collector may, after such inquiry as he deems necessary, determine the amount of the compensation which, in his opinion, should be paid to any person 6r persons in respect of the loss or damage or death or grievous hurt aforesaid.

(3) The amount of the compensation shall be deemed to be a fine imposed under this section, and shall be payable by the Inhabitants of the disturbed area.

(4) It shall be lawful for the District Collector to exempt, by order in writing and for sufficient reasons, any person from liability to pay any portion of the compensation amount.

Dispute in regard to cost of deputing additional compensa- tion under section 41.

42. In the event of any dispute relating to the cost payable under section 39 or section 40 or the compensation determined under section 41 or the person or persons or thi- section or class of persons by whom or the proportion in which such cost or compensation should be paid, the matter shall be referred by the Collector, or the Administrator or the competent authority, as the case may be, on an application made In that behalf by the aggrieved party, to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, whose decision thereof shall be final.

43. Any amount payable under section 38, section 39, section 40 or •ection. 41 shall be recovered in the same manner as If it were an arrear of land revenue.

Recovery of amount payable under section 38, 39, 40 or 41

44. (1) Amounts payable under section 38, section 39, section 40 or

section 41 shall, when recovered, be credited to the Government.

Collector to award compen- sation.

(2) The District Collector shall pay, from the amounts recovered by him as compensation payable under section 41, such amount as he deems just and proper by way of compensation to any person who has suffered loss or damage to property or grievous hurt or to the legal heirs of any person who died, by reason of anything done in the prosecution of the common object of the unlawful assembly.

(3) No compensation shall be paid under this section, except when a claim has been made therefor within forty-five days from the date of the notification referred to in sub-section (i) of section 41 and the District Collector is satisfied that the claimant, where the claim is by the person who suffered the loss, damage or grievous hurt, or the deceased, where the claim is by the legal heirs of such deceased, has been free from blame in connection with the occurrence which led to the loss, damage, grievous hurt or death.

(4) The compensation payable to any person under sub-section (2) shall not in any way be capable of being assigned or charged or be liable to attachment or to pass to any person other than the person entitled to it by operation of law, nor shall any claim be set off against the same.

(5) No civil suit shall be maintainable in respect of any loss, damage or grievous hurt for which compensation has been granted under this section.

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45. Without prejudice to the provisions contained in section 43, all amounts payable under section 39 or section 41 shall be recoverable in the manner provided in sections 421 and 422 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, as if each such amount were a fine imposed on an offen- der by a court.

Eecovery of amounts payable under sections 39 and 41.

Dispersal of gangs and bodies of persons.

46. Whenever it appears to the Commissioner of Police that the movement or encampftient of any gang or body of persons in any part of Delhi is causing or is calculated to cause danger to person or property or alarm or reasonable suspicion that unlawful designs are entertained by such gang or body of persons or by members thereof, the Commis- sioner of Police may, by order addressed to the persons appearing to be the leaders or chief men of such gang or body of p'ersons and published by announcement or beat of drums, or otherwise as the Commissioner of Police thinks fit direct the members of such gang or body of persons—

(a) to so conduct themselves as shall seem necessary in order

to prevent violence and alarm; or

(b) to disperse and to remove themselves beyond the limits of Delhi, or any part thereof, within such time as the Commissioner

of Police shall specify and not to enter Delhi or the part thereof, as the case may be, trom which they were directed to remove them- selves.

47. Whenever it appears to the Commissioner of Police—

(a) that the movements or acts of any person axe causing or are calculated to cause alarm, danger or harm to person or property; or

Removal of per- sona about to commit offences.

46 of I860, (b) that there are reasonable giounds for believing that such person is engaged or is about to be engaged in the commission of an offence involving force or violence or an offence punishable under Chapter XII, Chapter XVI, Chapter XVII or Chapter XXII of the Indian Penal Code or under section 290 or sections 489A to 489E (both inclusive) of that Code or in the abetment of any such offence; or

(c) that such person—

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(i) is so desperate and dangerous as to render his being at large in Delhi or in any part thereof hazardous to the community; or

(ii) has been found habitually intimidating other persons by acts of violence or by show of force; or

(in) habitually commits affray or breach of peace or riot, or habitually makes forcible collection of subscription or threaten! people for illegal pecuniary gain for himself or for others; or

(iu) has been habitually passing indecent remarks on wo- men and girls, or teasing them by overtures;

and that in the opinion of the Commissioner of Police witnesses are not willing to come forward to give evidence in public against such person by reason of apprehension on their part as regards the safety of their person or property, the Commissioner of Police may, by order in writing duly served on such person, or by beat of drum or otherwise as he thinks fit, direct such person to so conduct himself as shall seem necessary in order to prevent violence and alarm or to remove himself outside Delhi or any part thereof, by such route and within such time as the Commis- sioner of Police may specify and not to enter or return to Delhi or part thereof, as the case may be, from which he was directed to remove himself.

Eocplanation.—A person who during a period within one year im- mediately preceding the commencement of an action under this section has been found on not less than three occasions to have committed or to have been Involved in any of the acts referred to in this section shall be deemed to have habitually committed that act.

48. If a person has been convicted—

(a) of an offence under Chapter XII, Chapter XVI or Chapter XVII of the Indian Penal Code; or

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Removal of per. sons con- victed of certain offences.

Delhi Act 9 of 1938.

(b) of an offence under section 3 or section 4 of the Delhi Public Gambling Act, 1955, or under section 12 of that Act in so far as it relates to satta gambling or on two or more occasions under any other provision of that Act (including section 12 of that Act in so far as it does not relate to satta gambling); or

(c) of any offence under the Suppression of Immoral Traffic In 104 of 1956.

Women and Girls Act, 1956; or

(d) of any offence under section 25, section 26, section 27, section 54 of 1959.

28 or section 29 of the Arms Act, 1959; or

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(e) of any offence under section 135 of the Customs Act, 1962; or

(f) of any offence under section 61, section 63 or section 66 of

the Punjab Excise Act, 1955, as in force in Delhi; or

Punjab Act No. 18 of 1055.

(£f) on two or more occasions of an offence under—

(i) the Opium Act, 1878; or

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(ii) the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1930; or

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(Hi) the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940; or

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(iu) section 11 of the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act,

1959, as in force in Delhi; or

Bombay Act No. L0 of I960.

(h) on three or more occasions of an offence under section 105

or section 107 of this Act,

the Commissioner of Police may, if he has reason to believe that such person is likely again to engage himself in the commission of any of the offences referred to in this section, by order in writing, direct such per- son to remove himself beyond the limits of Delhi or any part thereof, by such route and within such time as the Commissioner of Police may specify and not to enter or return to Delhi or any part thereof, as the case may be, from which he was directed to remove himself.

49. Any direction made under section 46, section 47 or section 48 not to enter Delhi or any part thereof, shall be for such period as may be specified therein, and shall in no case exceed a period of two years from the date on which it was made,

Period of operation of orders under section 48, 47 or 48.

50. (I) Before an order under section 46, section 47 or section 48 is made against any person, the Commissioner of Police shall by notice in writing inform him of the general nature of the material allegations against him and give him a reasonable opportunity of tendering an ex- planation regarding them.

Hearing t0 be given before order under section 46, 47 or 48 is passed.

(2) If such person makes an application for the examination of any witness to be produced by him, the Commissioner of Police shall grant such application and examine such witness, unless for reasons to be recorded in writing, the Commissioner of Police is of opinion that such application is made for the purpose of causing vexation or delay.

(3) Any written explanation put in by such person shall be filed

with the record of the case.

(4) Such person shall be entitled to be represented in the proceeding

before the Commissioner of Police by a counsel.

(5) (a) The Commissioner of Police may for the purpose of securing the attendance of any person against whom any order is proposed to be made under section 46, section 47 or section 48 require such person, by order in writing, to appear before him and to furnish a security bond with or without sureties for attendance during the inquiry.

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(b) The provisions of sections 119 to 124 (both inclusive) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, shall, so far as may be, apply in relation to the order under clause (a) to furnish security bond.

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(6) Without prejudice to the foregoing provisions, the Commissioner of Police, while issuing notice to any p'erson under sub-section (1) may issue a warrant for his arrest and the provisions of sections 70 to 8& (both inclusive) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, shall, so far as may be, apply in relation to such warrant.

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(7) The provisions of section 445, section 446, section 447 or section 448 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, shall, so far as may be, apply in relation to all bonds executed under this section.

51. (1) Any person aggrieved by an order made under section 46, section 47 or section 48 may appeal to the Administrator within thirty days from the date of the service of such order on him.

Appeal against orders under section 46, 47 or 48.

(2) An appeal under this section shall be preferred in duplicate In the form of a memorandum, setting forth concisely the grounds of ob- jection to the order appealed against, and shall be accompanied by that order or a certified copy thereof.

(3) On receipt of such appeal, the Administrator may, after giving a reasonable opportunity to the appellant to be heard either personally or by a, counsel and after such further inquiry, if any, as he may deem necessary, confirm, vary or set aside the order appealed against:

Provided that the order appealed against shall remain in force pend- ing the disposal of the appeal, unless the Administrator otherwise directs.

(4) The Administrator shall make every endeavour to dispose of an appeal under this section within a period of three months from the date of receipt of such appeal.

(5) In calculating the period of thirty days provided for an appeal under this .section, the time taken for obtaining a certified copy of the order appealed against, shall be excluded,

52- An order passed by the Commissioner of Police under section 46, section 47 or section 48 or the Administrator under section 51 shall not be tilled in question in any court except on the ground—

Finality [J order in certain caae*.

(a) that the Commissioner of Police or the Administrator, as the case may be, had not followed the procedure laid down in sub- section (1), sub-section (2) or sub-section (4) of section 50 or in section 51, as the case may be; or

(b) that there was no material before the Commissioner of Police or the Administrator, as the case may be, upon which he could have based his order; or

(c) in the case of an order made under section 47 or an order in appeal therefrom to the Administrator under section 51, the Commissioner of Police or the Administrator, as the case may be, was not of the opinion that witnesses were unwilling to come for- ward to give evidence in public against the person against whom •uch order has been made.

53. If a person to whom a direction has been issued under section 46, section 47 or section 48 to remove himself from Delhi or any part there- of—

(a) fails to remove himself as directed; or

(b) having so removed himself enters Delhi or any part there- of within the period specified in the order, otherwise than with the permission in writing of the Commissioner of Police under section 54,

Procedure on failure of person to leave the area and his entry therein alter removal.

the Commissioner of Police may cause him to be arrested and removed in police custody to such place outside Delhi or any part thereof as the Ccmmissioner of Police may in each case specify.

54. (1) The Commissioner of Police or any other police officer specially empowered by the Administrator in that behalf may, by order in writing, permit any person, in respect of whom an order under section 46, section 47 or section 48 has been made, to return to Delhi or any part thereof, from which he was directed to remove himself, for such temporary period and subject to such conditions as may be specified in such order and may require him to execute a bond with or without surety for the due observance of the conditions imposed.

(2) The Commissioner of Police may at any time revoke any such

permission.

Tempo- rary per. mission to enter and conse. quences of non- obser. vance of conditions of such permis- sion.

(3) Any person who with such permission returns to Delhi or any pavt thereof shall observe the conditions imposed, and at the expiry of the tenrporary period for which he was permitted to return, or on the revocation of such permission before the expiry of such temporary period, shall remove himself outside Delhi or any part thereof, as the case may be, and shall not return thereto within the unexpired portion of the period specified in the original order made under section 46, section 47 or section 48 without a fresh permission.

(4) If such person fails to observe any of the conditions imposed, or to remove himself accordingly or having so removed himself enters or returns to Delhi or any part thereof, as the case may be, without fresh permission, the Commissioner of Police may cause him to be arrested and removed in police custody to such place outside Delhi or part thereof as the Commissioner of Police may in each case specify.

55. Every person against whom an order has been made under section 46, section 47 or section 48 shall, if so required by the Com- missioner of Police, allow his measurements and phoftograph to be taken by a police officer in the prescribed manner.

56. (1) It any person as aforesaid when required to allow his measurements or photograph to be taken resists or refuses to allow the taking of such measurements or photograph, it shall be lawful to use all necessary means to secure the taking thereof.

Taking measure- ments and photo- graphs, etc., ofl persons against, whom an order under section 46, 47 or 48 is made. Resist- ance to the taking of: mea- surement*, etc. (2) Resistance to or refusal to allow the taking of measurements'

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or photographs under this Act shall be deemed to be an offence under section 186 of the Indian Penal Code.

(3) Where an order under section 46, section 47 or section 48 is set aside in appeal, all measurements and photographs (including nega- tives) taken under this section shall be destroyed or made over to the person against whom such order is made,

Banning of use of dress, etc., re- sembling uniform of armed forces.

57. (2) If the Administrator is satisfied that the wearing in public, by any member of any body, or association or organisation, of any dress or article of apparel resembling any uniform required to be worn by a member of the Armed Forces of the Union or by a member of any police force or of any force constituted by or under any law for the time being in force, is likely to prejudice the security of the State or the maintenance of public order, he may, by a general or special order, prohibit or restrict the wearing, or display, in public of any such dress ©r article of apparel by any member of such body or association or organisation.

(2) Every general or special order under sub-section (2) shall be published in the manner prescribed for the publication of a public notice under section 142.

Explanation.—For the purposes of this section a dress or an article of apparel shall be deemed to be worn or displayed in public if It is worn or displayed in any place to which the public have access.

Constitu- tion of Defence Societies.

58. (1) For the protection of persons, the security of property and the public safety in any locality the Commissioner of Police may constitute voluntary bodies (hereafter in this section referred to a* Defence Societies) in the prescribed manner.

(2) The Commissioner of Police or any officer of a Defence Society may at any time call up officers subordinate to him or any member of a Defence Society for training or to discharge any of the duties under this Act assigned to them.

(3) Every officer or member of a Defence Society shall—

(a) on appointment receive a certificate in such form as may

be specified or approved by the Administrator in this behalf; and

(b) when called up for duty have the same powers, pri- vileges and protection as are vested in a police officer appointed under this Act.

(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, an officer or member of a Defence Society shall not be disqualified for being chosen as, or for being, a member of—

(a) the Delhi Metropolitan Council or the Municipal Corporation

of Delhi; or

(b) any other local authority,

by reason of the fact that he is a member or officer of such Society.

CHAPTER VI

EXECUTIVE DUTIES AND POWERS OF POLICE OFFICERS

59. (1) It shall be the duty of every police officer to ensure compliance with the provisions of this Act or any rule, regulation or order made thereunder and for that purpose such police officer may,—

Duty of police officer to enforce provisions of the Act. (a) warn persons who from ignorance fail to comply with any provision of this Act or any rule, regulation or order made there- under;

(b) require any person acting or about to act contrary to any provision of this Act or rule, regulation or order made thereunder, to desist from so doing;

(c) subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), arrest any person contravening any provision of this Act or any rule, regulation or order made thereunder, where such contravention is an offence punishable under this Act;

(d) seize any object used, or about to be used, in contravening, or in contravention of, the provisions of this Act or any rule, regulation or order made thereunder, where such contravention is an offence punishable under this Act.

(2) A police officer shall not arrest any person under clause (c) of sub-section (1) without a warrant issued by a Metropolitan Magistrate, unless such person—

(a) has contravened any regulation made under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 28;

(b) has contravened any order or notification made under sec- tion 29, sub-section (I) or sub-section (2) of section 30, section 32, section 47, section 48 or sub-section (1) of section 57;

(c) commits in the presence of such police officer ani offence punishable under section 97, sub-section (1) of section 108, clause (a), (b) or (c) of sectHon 110 or sub-section (2) of section 113 in respect of 'the contravention of any order made under section 33 or section 34;

(d) has committed, or is reasonably suspected to have committed, an offence punishable under section 100 in relation to any dwelling house, private premises or any other land or ground attached thereto:

Provided that the person in possession or having charge of that dwelling house, private premises or land or ground complains of the commission of such offence;

(e) has committed, or is reasonably suspected to have committed an offence punishable under section 101, section 102 or clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 113;

(f) commits in his presence in any street or public place any non-cogirnizable offence punishable under this Adt or any rule or regulation made thereunder if such person—

(i) after being warned by the police officer persists in com- mitting such offence; or

(n) refuses to accompany the police officer to a police station on being required so to do.

(3) The Commissioner of Police or any other police officer especially empowered in this behalf by the Commissioner of Police may arrest without a warrant issued by a Metropolitan Magistrate any person who has committed an offence punishable under section 92.

60. It shall be the duty of every police officer—

Other duties of a police officer.

(a) promptly to serve every summons and obey and execute every warrant or other order lawfully issued to him by the competent authority and to comply with all lawful commands of his superior;

(b) to the beat of his ability, to obtain intelligence concerning the commission of cognizable offences or designs to commit such offences and to lay such information and to take such other steps consistent with law and with the orders of his superiors as shall be best calculated to bring offenders to justice and to prevent the com- mission of cognizable and, within his view, of non-cognizaEle offences;

(c) to prevent to the best of his ability the commission of public

nuisances;

(d) to apprehend without unreasonable delay all persons whom he is legally authorised to apprehend and for whose apprefiengion there is sufficient reason;

(e) to aid any other police officer when called upon by such other police officer or In the case of need in the discharge of the duty of such other police officer, in such ways as would be lawful and reason- able on the part of the officer aided;

(f) to prevent the breach of the public peace;

(g) to afford every assistance within his power to disabled or

helpless persons in the streets;

(h) to take charge of intoxicated persons and of lunatics at large,

who appear dangerous or incapable of taking care of themselves;

(i) to take prompt measures to procure necessary help for any person under arrest or in custody, who Is wounded or sick and whilst guarding or conducting any such person to have due regard to His condition;

(j) to arrange for the proper sustenance and shelter of every

person who Is under arrest or in custody;

(k) in conducting searches, to refrain from needless rudeness

and the causing of unnecessary annoyance;

(I) in dealing with women and children, to act with strict regard

to decency and with reasonable gentleness:

(TO) to use his best endeavours to prevent any loss or damage bv

fire;

(n) to use his best endeavours to avert any accident or danger

to the public;

(o) to regulate and control the traffic in the streets, to prevent obstructions therein and to the best of his ability, to prevent the contravention of any rule, regulation or order made under this

Act or any other law in force lor observance by the public in or near the streets;

(p) to keep orc'ir in the streets and at and within public bathing and washing places, fairs, temples and all other places of public resort and in the neighbourhood of places of public worship;

(q) to regulate resort to public bathing and washing places and all other places of public resort, to prevent overcrowding there and to the best of his ability, to prevent the contravention of any regula- tion or order lawfully made for observance by the public at such place; and

(r) to discharge such other duties as are imposed upon him by

any law for the time being in force.

Power to editor places of public resort.

61. Subject to the provisions of this Act and ithe rules, regulations) and orders made thereunder, every police officer may, for the purpose of 'i discharging any of the duties referred to in section 59 or section 60 enter without a warrant and inspect any place of public resort which he has reason to believe is used as a place for the storing, sale or consumption of intoxicating drinks or narcotics or a place for resort of loose and disorderly characters.

Power to search suspected r'orrnns

ill StlTCt, EtC.

? Qt i 974.

62. When in a street or a place of public resort a person is in possession or suspected to be in possession of any article which a police officer in good faith suspects to be stolen property, such police officer may search such person and may require an account in relation to any article found in his possession and should the account given by the possessor be mani- festly false or suspicious, may detain such article after giving to Hie possessor a receipt in the prescribed form and report the facts to a Metro- politan Magistrate who shall thereupon proceed according to the provi- sions of sections 457, 458 and 459 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 197;"!.

63. (1) The Administrator may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any specified service to be an essential service to the communiLy.

Emer- gency duties of police, (2) A declaration made under sub-section (?) shall remain in force for one month in the first instance, but may be extended from time to time by a like notification.

(3) Upon a declaration being made under sub-section (1) and so long as it remains in force, it shall be the duty of every police officer to obey any order given by any superior officer in relation to any employment in connection with the service specified in the declaration.

64. A police officer of a rank superior to that of a constable may perform any duty assigned by law or by a lawful order to ,any officer subordinate to him, and in the case of any duty imposed on such subordi- nate, a superior may aid, supplement, supersede, or prevent any action of such subordinate by his own action or that of any person lawfully acting under his command or autho-ity, whenever the same shall appear neces- sary or expedient for giving more c-oropietp or convenient effect to the law or for avoiding any infringement thereof.

Supe- rior police officer may him- self per- form duties imposed on a subordi- nate officer,

65. (1) All persons shall be bound to comply with the reasonable directions given by a police officer in the discharge of his duties under this Act.

Persons bound to comply with the reasonable directions of police orficer.

(2) Where any person resists, refuses or fails to comply with any direction referred to in sub-section (1), a police officer may, without pre- judice to any other action that he may take under any other provision of .this Act or any other law for the time being in force, remove such person and either produce him before a Metropolitan Magistrate or, in trivial cases, release him when the occasion which necessitated the removaJ has ceased to exist:

Provided that the person so removed shall in all cases be produced before the Metropolitan Magistrate or released, as the case may be, within a period of twenty-four hours of such removal.

CHAPTER VII

POWERS IN RELATION TO UNCLAIMED PROPERTY

66. (1) It shall be the duty of every police officer to take temporary Police to take

charge—

(a) of all unclaimed property found by, or made over to, him; and

charge of unclaim. ed pro- perty.

(b) of all property found lying in any public street, if the owner or person in charge of such property, on being directed to remove the same, refuses or fails to do so.

(2) The police officer taking charge of the property under sub-section

(1) shall furnish an inventory thereof to the Commissioner of Police.

67. (1) Where any property has been taken charge of under sub-section (1) of section 66, the Commissioner of Police shall issue a proclamation specifying the articles of which such property consists and requiring that any person who may have a claim thereto shall appear before him or some other officer whom he authorises in this behalf and establish his claim within six months from the date of such proclamation,

Procedure for dis. posal of property taken charge of under flection 66.

(2) If the property, or any part thereof, is subject to speedy and natural decay or'consists of livestock or if the property appears to be of the value of less than fifty rupees, it rnay forthwith be sold by auction under the orders of the Commissioner of Police and the net proceeds of such sale shall be dealt with in the same manner as is hereinafter provided for the disposal of the said property.

(3) Where any person who has a claim to the property is required by the proclamation under sub-section (1) to appear before the other officer authorised by the Commissioner of Police in that behalf and establish his claim, such officer shall forward the record of the proceedings before him with his findings thereon to the Commissioner of Police.

Delivery ol pro- perty to person entitled.

68. (1) The Commissioner of Police on being satisfied of the title of any claimant to the possession or administration of the property specified In the proclamation issued under sub-section (1) of section 67 order the same to be delivered to him, after deduction or payment of the expenses incurred by the Delhi police in the seizure and detention thereof.

(2) The Commissioner of Police may, at his discretion, before making ttny order under sub-section ( i ), take such security as he may think, proper from the person to whom the said property is to be delivered and nothing hereinbefore contained shall affect the right of any person to recover the whole or any part of the same from the person to whom it may have been delivered pursuant to such order.

69. (1) If no person establishes his claim to such property within the period speciflied in the proclamation, the property, or such part thereof as has not already been sold under sub-section (2) of section 67, may be sold by auction under the orders of the Commissioner of Police and the pro- ceeds thereof shall be credited to the Government.

In default of claim, property to be at disposal of Go- vernment.

(2) If any claim is made to any proceeds credited under sub-section (1) to the Government and if such claim is established, whether wholly or to any extent, to the satisfaction of the prescribed authority, the Administrator shall pay to the claimant the amount determined in that behalf by the prescribed authority.

(3) The form and manner in which claims may be made under sub- section (2) and the procedure for dealing with such claims and all other matters connected therewith shall be such as may be prescribed.

CHAPTER Vill

SPECIAL PBOVISIONS RELATING TO EXERCISE OP POWERS UNDER THE CODE OF

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1973

70. (7) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette and subject to such conditions and limitations as may be specified therein, empower—

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(a) the Commissioner of Police to exercise and perform in rela- tion to Delhi the powers and duties of an Executive Magistrate and of a District Magistrate under such of the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, as may be specified in the notification;

(b) any officer subordinate to the Commissioner of Police (not being an officer below the rank of an Assistant Commissioner of Police^ to exercise and perform in relation to such areas in Delhi as may be specified in the notification the powers and duties' of an Executive Magistrate under such of the provisions of the said Code as may be specified in the notification,

Power of Central Govern- ment to authorise Commig^ sioner of Police and certain Other officers to exercise powers of District Magis- trates and Executive Magis- trates under tha Code of Criminal Proce- dure, 1973.

(2) Every officer subordinate to the Commissioner of Police shall, in the exercise and performance of any powers and duties which he is empowered to exercise or perform under sub-section (2), be subject to the general control of the Commissioner of Police in the same manner and to the same extent as an Executive Magistrate appointed under sec- tion 20 of the said Code would be subject to the general control of the District Magistrate appointed under that section,

(3) The Commissioner of Police or any officer subordinate to him shall not be subject in the exercise and performance of any powers and duties which he is empowered to exercise and perform under sub-section (2), to the general control of the District Magistrate appointed under section 20 of the said Code.

(4) The provisions of this section shall have effect notwithstanding

anything contained in the said Code.

Notifica- tions under pection 70 lo be laid before Parlia- ment.

71. Every notification made by the Central Government under section 70 shall be laid, as soon as it is made, before each House of Parliament while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be com- prised in one session or in two or more successive sessions and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modifi- cation in the notification or both Houses agree that the notification should not be made, the notification shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that notification.

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72. (i) The notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Home Affairs No. S.O. 224(E), dated the 30th March, 1974, under sec- tion 478 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, shall cease to have effect and accordingly references to a Judicial Magistrate of the first class in sections 108, 109 and 110 of the said Code shall cease to be construed in respect of Delhi as references to an Executive Magistrate.

(2) All proceedings, under the said sections, pending before any Executive Magistrate immediately before the cesser of operation under sub-section (?) of the notification referred to therein shall, upon such cessor of operation, stand transferred to the Metropolitan Magistrate who would have jurisdiction if such pioceedings had been instituted after such cesser of operation.

10 or 1897.

(3) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (3), the provisions of sec- tion 6 of the General Clauses Act, 1897, shall apply to the cesser of operation of the notification refened to in hub-section (/) as if such cesser of operation of the notification were a repeal of an enactment by a Central Act.

TvCferen. eea to Judicial Magis- trate of the first class in sections 1C8, 109 and 110 of the Code of Criminal Proce- dure, 1973 not to be construed as refe. rences to an Executive Magis- trate.

CHAPTER IX

SPECIAL POWEHS UNDER THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT, I960

73. (2) When In respect of an animal an offence punishable under sub- section (1) of section 11 or section 12 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 has been committed, or when there is a reasonable ground for suspecting that such offence has been committed, a police officer may—

Powers with regard to offences under Act 59 of 1980.

(a) take the animal to the Metropolitan Magistrate, or

(b) if the accused person so requires, take the animal to a vete- rinary officer specified by general or special order by the Adminis- trator in this behalf:

Provided that the police officer may, instead of taking the animal to a veterinary officer, take the animal for detention in a dispensary, or in any suitable place approved by the Administrator by general or special order and the animal shall thereupon be detained there until Its production before a Metropolitan Magistrate, or

(c) take the animal to an infirmary appointed under section 35 of the said Act for treatment and detention therein, pending direc- tion of a Magistrate under sub-section (2) of that section, or

(d) when the animal is in such physical condition that it cannot be taken to a veterinary officer or a Metropolitan Magistrate, draw

up a report of th^ondition of the animal in the presence of two or more respectable persons describing such wound, sores, fractures, bruises, or other marks of injury as may be found on the body of the animal:

Provided that the police officer may take the animal for detention In a dispensary or any suitable place approved by the Administrator by general or special order and the animal shall thereupon be detained there until its production before a Metropolitan Magistrate.

(2) Where an animal is detained in a dispensary, infirmary or other place under sub-section (7), the animal shall be produced before a Metropolitan Magistrate with the least possible delay and in any case within a period not exceeding three days from the date on which it was so detained.

59 of 1960.

74. When the animal is brought before a Metropolitan Magistrate under section 73, the Magistrate may direct the animal to be returned to the person from whose possession it was taken on such person giving security to the satisfaction of the Metropolitan Magistrate binding him- self to produce the animal when required or may direct that the animal shall be sent for treatment and care to an infirmary and be detained there as provided In section 35 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 or may make such order as he thinks fit regarding the disposal or custody or production of the animal.

Powers of Metro- politan Magis- trate to return animal to person from whose possession It was token.

Veteri- nary officer to examine the anfcnal.

75. The veterinary officer before whom an animal is brought under section 73 shall with all convenient speed examine the same and draw up a report of such examination and a copy of the report of such examina- tion shall be delivered free of charge to the accused person if he applies for it.

Animal to be dealt with under Act 59 of 1960.

76. When under section 73, a police officer takes an animal for deten- tion in a dispensary or infirmary or other place before its production before a Metropolitan Magistrate or a Metropolitan Magistrate directs its further detention in an infirmary, sub-sections (3) to (7) (both inclu- sive) of section 35 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 shall, as far as may be, apply in relation to the detention of the animal (including the cost of transport, maintenance and treatment of the animal) in the dspensary, infirmary or other place.

Power of police officer to unsaddle animal or t0 unload it- 77. When a police officer in good faith suspects that any animal being employed in any woik or labour is, by reason of any sore, unfit to be so employed, he may require the person in charge of such animal to unsaddle or unload it for the purpose of ascertaining whether any sore exists and, if any person refuses to do so, such police officer may himself unsaddle or unload the animal or may cause the same to be unsaddled or unloaded.

78. Any police officer may arrest, without a warrant from a Magis- trate, any person committing in his presence any offence punishable under clauses (a) to (m) (both inclusive) of sub-section (1) of section 11 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, I960.

Arrest without warra'nt In case ot certain offences under Act 59 of 1960.

7tf. The provisions of this Chapter shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, the provisions of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960.

Provi- sions of Chapter to be in addition to 1 he pro- visions of Act 59 of 1BC0.

CHAPTER X

OFFENCES AND PUNISHMENTS

80. No person shall—

Disre- garding the rules of the road.

(a) when driving a vehicle along a street (except in cases oi actual necessity or of some other sufficient reason for deviation) fail to keep on the left side of such street and when passing any other vehicle proceeding in the same direction fail to keep on the right aide of such vehicle; or

(b) leave in any street or public place insufficiently tended or

secured any animal or vehicle.

81. No person shall ca^.se obstruction damage, injury, danger, alarm

or mischief in any street or public place—•

(i) by misbehaviour, negligence or ill-usage in the driving,

management, treatment or care of any animal or vehicle; or

Causing obstruc- tion or mischief by animal-

(ii) by driving any vehicle or animal laden with timber, poles or other unwieldy articles through a street or public place contrary to any regulation made in that behalf.

Exposing animal (or hire, saL*. ">*<•,

82. No person shall in any street or public place expose for hire or sale any animal or vehicle, clean any furniture or vehicle, or clean or groom any horse or other animal except at such times and places as the competent authority permits, or shall train or break in any horse or other animal or make any vehicle or any part of a vehicle or (except when as a result of any accident repairing on the spot is unavoidable) repair any vehicle or part of a vehicle, oi¹ carry on therein any manu- facture or operation so as to be a serious impediment to traffic or serious annoyance to residents in the vicinity or to the public.

83. No person shall cause obstruction in any street or public place—

Causing any obs- ' ruction in a. street-

(a) by allowing any animal or vehicle, which has to be loaded or unloaded, or take up ae set down passengers, to remain or stand in the street or the public place longer than may be necessary for such purpose; or

(b) by leaving any vehicle standing or fastening any cattle in

the street or the Dublic place; or

(c) by using any part of a street or public place as a halting

place for vehicles or cattle; or

(d) by leaving any box, bale, package or other things whatso- ever in nr upon a street for an unreasonable length of time or con- irary to any regulation; or

(e) by exposing anything for sale or setting out anything for sale in or upon any stall, booth, board, cask, basket or in any other way whatsoever.

Obhtruci- mg a footway.

84. No person shall drive, ride, load, propel or leave on any footway any animal or vehicle other than a perambulator or fasten any animal In such a way that the animal can stand across or upon such footway.

85. No person shall, in contravention of any regulation made by the

Commissioner of Police,—

(a) exhibit any mimetic, musical or other performances of such

a nature as may attract crowds; or

(b) carry or place bulky advertisements, pictures, figures or

Causing obstruc- tion and annd- yance by pcrlcr. mances etc emblems in any street or public place,

whereby any obstruction to passengers or annoyance to the residents in the vicinity may be occasioned.

86. No person shall slaughter any animal, clean a carcass or hide, 6r bathe or wash his person in or near to and within sight of a street or public place, except at a place set apart for the purpose, so as to cause annoyance to the neighbouring residents or to passers-by.

D oiii" Often:-) ve acts in or near a btrett or public place.

87. No person shall in any street or public place—

(a) negligently let loose any horse or other animal, so as to

cause danger, injury, alarm or annoyance; or

(h) siuffer a ferocious dog to be at large without a muzzle; or

(c) set on or urge a dog or other animal to attack, worry or put

LeiUnfi loose horse, etc., and iufter. ing fero- uous dogs (o be ut large,

in fear any person or horse or other animal.

Bathing or wash- ing in places 88. No person shall bathe or wash in, or by the side of, a public well, tank or reservoir not set apart for such purpose by order of the com- petent authority, or in, or by the side of, any pond, pool, aqueduct, part of a river, stream, nullah or other source or menns of water¹ supply in which such bathing or washing is forbidden by order qf tne competent authority.

A'.'t S_t apart for ihose purposes.

Defiling water m public wells, etc. 89. No person shall defile or cause to be denied the water in any public well, tank, reservoir, pond, pool, aqueduct or part of a river, stream, nullah or other source or means of water supply, so as to render the same less fit for any purpose for which it is set apart by the order of the competent authority.

Obstruct- ing bathers.

90. No person shall obstruct or incommode a person bathing at a place set apart for the purpose by the order of the competent authority under section 88 by wilful Intrusion or by using such place for any pur- pose for which it is not so set apart,

Behaving indecently in public:.

^ 91. No person shall wilfully and indecently expose his pefgon in any street or public place or place of public resort or within sight of, and in su;h manner as to be seen from, any street or public place or place of public resort, whether from within any house or building or not, or use indecent language or behave indecently or riotously or in a disor- derly manner in a street or public pbee or place of public resort or in any office, police station or station house.

92. No person shall wilfully push, press, hustle or obstruct any pas- senger in a street or public place or by violent movements, menacing gestures, wanton personal annoyance, screaming, shouting, wilfully frightening horses or cattle or otherwise, disturb the public peace or order.

93. No person shall use in any street or public place any threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to provoke a breach of the peace or whereby a breach of the peace may be occasioned.

Obstruct- ing or annoying passen- gers in th1 peacei

94. No person shall fly a kite or any other thing so as to cause danger,

injury or alarm to persons, animals or property.

Prohibi- tion against flying kites, ate.

95. No person shall in or near to any street, public place or place of

public resort—

(a) commit a nuisance by easing himself; or

(b) having the care or custody of any child under seven years

Commit- ting nuisance in or near street, etc.

of age, suffer such child to commit a nuisance as aforesaid; or

(c) spit or throw any dust, ashes, refuse or rubbish so as to

cause annoyance to any passer-by.

Disregard of notice In public building.

96. No person shall, in any court, police station, police office or build- ing occupied by Government or building occupied by any local body, smoke, or spfit in contravention of a notice, by the competent authority in charge of such place, displayed in such court, police station, police office or building.

97. Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of sections 80 to 96 (both inclusive) shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or, in default of payment of such fine, with imprisonment for a term not exceeding eight days.

Penal- ties for offences under sections 80 to 96.

98. (1) Whoever allows any cattle which are his property or in his charge to stray in any street or to trespass upon any public or private properly shall on conviction be punished—

(a) for the first offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to three hundred rupees, or with bo,th; and

Penalty for failure to keep In confine- ment cattle, etc.

(b) for the second or subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may ex- tend to five hundred rupees, or with both.

(2) The Metropolitan Magistrate trying an offence under sub-section

(1) may order—

(a) that the accused shall pay such compensation not exceeding two hundred and fifty rupees as such Magistrate considers reasonable

to any person for any damage proved to have been caused to his pro- perty or the produce of his land by the cattle under the control of the accused trespassing on his land; and

(b) that the cattle in respect of which the offence has been com-

mitted shall be forfeited to the Government.

(3) Any compensation awarded under sub-section (2) may be recover-

ed as if it were a fine imposed under this section.

(4) It shall be the duty of every police officer and it shall be* lawful for any other person to seize and take to any cattle pound for confine- ment therein any cattle found spraying in any street or trespassing upon any privajle or public property.

(5) Any fine imposed under this section may, without prejudice to any other means of recovery provided by law, be recovered by sale of all or any of the cattle in respect of which the offence was comraitted, whether they are the property of the person convicted of the offence or were only in his charge when the offence was committed.

(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Ooide of Criminal Pro- cedure, 1973, the offence punishable under this section shall be cognizable.

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Punish- ment for cruelty to animals.

99. Whoever in any place cruelly beats, goads, overworks, ill-treats or tortures or causes, or procures to be cruelly beaten, goaded, overworked, jll-treated or tortured, any animal shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both.

Wilful trespass.

100. Whoever without satisfactory excuse wilfully enters or remains In or upon any dwelling-house or premises or land or ground attached thereto, or on any ground, building, monument or structure belonging to Government or used for public purposes, or on any vehicle, shall, on con- viction, whether he causes any actual damage or not, be punished with imprisonment which may extend to seven days or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both.

False alarm of fire or damage to fire alarm.

101. Whoever knowingly gives or causes to bel given a false alarmj of fire to the fire brigade of the Government or the Corporation or a mu- nicipality or to any officer or fireman thereof, whether by means of a street fire alarm, statement, message or otherwise, or with intent to give auch false alarm wilfully breaks the glass of, or otherwise damages, a street fire alarm, shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both.

102. Whoever is found between sunset and sunrise—

(a) armed with any dangerous instrument with intent to com-

mit an offence; or

(b) having his face covered, or otherwise disguised with in-

tent to commit an offence; or

(c) in any dwelling-house or other building, or on any vehicle, without being able satisfactorily to account for his presence there; or

Being found under sus- picious circums- tances between sunset and sun- rise.

(d) lying or loitering in any street, yard or other place, being a reputed thief and without being able to give a satisfactory account of himself; or

(e) having in his possession without lawful excuse (the burden of proving which excuse shall be on such person) any implement of house breaking,

shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months.

103. Whoever has in hj'3 possession or conveys in any manner, or offers for sale or pawn, anything which there is reason to believe is stolen property or property fraudulently obtained, shall, if he fails to account for such possession or act to the satisfaction of the Metropolitan Magis- trate, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to one nundred rupees, or with both.

Possession of pro- perty of which no satisfac- tory accoutit can be given.

45 of I860 Omission by pawn- brokers, etc., to report to police possession or tender of pro- perty sus- pected to be stolen.

104. Whoever being a pawn-broker, dealer in second hand property, or worker in metals, or reasonably believed by the Commissioner of Police to be such a person, and having received from a police officer writ- ten or printed information in relation to any property suspected to have been transferred by any offence mentioned in section 410 of ihe Indian Penal Code or by any offence punishable under section 417, section 418, section 419 or section 420 of the said Code, is found in possession, or, after |the receipt of such information, conies into possession or* haa an offer, either by way of sale, pawn, exchange, or for custody, alteration or other- wise howsoever, made 10 him, of property answering the description con- tained in such information, shall, unless—

(i) he forthwith gives information to the Commissioner of Police, or at a police station of such possession or offers and takes all reasonable means to ascertain and to give information as afore- said of the name and address of the person from whom the posses- sion or offer was received, or

(ii) the property, being an article of common wearing apparel or otherwise, is incapable of identification from the written or print- ed information given and has been in no way concealed after the receipt of such information,

on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees In respect of each such article of property so in his possession or offered to him.

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Melting, etc., of property referred to in section 104.

105. Whoever having received such information as Is referred to in section 104 alters, melts, defaces or puts away or causes or suffers to be altered,, melted, defaced or put away, without the previous permission of the police, any such property as is referred to in that section shall, on proof that the same was stolen property within the meaning of section 410 of the Indian Penal Code or property in respect of which any offence punishable under section 417, section 418, section 419 or section 420 of the said Code has been committed, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with fine, or with both.

Taking pledge from child.

106. Whoever takes from any child, not appearing to be above the age of fourteen years, any article whatsoever as a pawn, pledge or security for any sum of money lent, advanced or delivered to such child or with- out the knowledge and consent of the owner of "the article buys from such child any article whatsoever, shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.

107. Whoever, being the keeper of any place of public amusement or public entertainment, knowingly permits or suffers drunkenness or other disorderly behaviour or any gambling whatsoever, in such place, shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.

Suffering disorderly conduct at places of public amuse- ment, etc.

108. (2) Whoever by any fraud or unlawful device or malpractice In Cheating at games and gam- bling in street.

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playing at or with cards, dice or other game or in taking part in the stakes or wagers, or in betting on the sides or hands of the players, or in wagering on the event of any game, sports, pastime or exercise, wins from any other person, for himself or any other or others, any sum of money or valuable thing, shall be deemed to have committed the offence of cheating within the meaning of section 415 of the Indian Penal Code, and be liable to punishment accordingly.

(2) Whoever assembles with others, or joins any assembly, in a street assembled for the purpose of gambling or wagering shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees or may be re- leased after a due admonition,

109. Whoever contravenes, disobeys, opposes, or fails to conform to an order under section 27 requiring him to vacate any premises, shall, on conviction be punished with imprisonment which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees or with both.

Penalty for dis- obedience to order under section 27.

110. Save as provided in section 112, whoever contravenes, or abets the contravention of, any regulation made under section 28 or any of the conditions of a licence issued under such regulation shall, on conviction, be punished—

Penalty for con- travening regula- tions, etc., un- der sec- tion 28.

(a) if the regulation was made under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 28 providing for the prohibition of the sale, or ex- posure for sal", of any goods on any street or portion thereof so as to cause obstruction to traffic or inconvenience to the public—

(i) for the first offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, or with bothi and

(ii) for any subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months and with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees;

(b) if the regulation was made under clause (d), (h) _ (i) or (j),

sub-clause (i) or (ii) 01 clause (s) or clause (v) of sub-section (1) of section 28, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to eight days, or with fine which may extend to fifty rupees, or with both;

(c) if the regulation was made under clause (o) or (p) of sub- section (2) of section 28, with fine which may extend to two hund- red rupees; and

(d) if the regulation was made under any clause of sub-section (I) of section 28 and for the contravention of which no penalty is provided under clause (a), (b) or (c) of this section, with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.

111. The holder of a licence granted under this Act in respeot of a place of public amusement or public entertainmen|t shall be responsible, as well as the actual offender for any offence under section 110 committed by his servant or other agent acting with his express or implied permis- sion on his behailf as if he himself had committed the same, unless! he establishes that all due and reasonable precautions were taken by him to prevent the commission of such offence.

Liability of licen- see of place of public amuse- ment or entertain- ment for acts of servants.

112. (1) Whoever fails to obtain a licence under this Act in respect of a place of public entertainment or a certificate of registration there- under in respect of any eating house, or to renew the licence! or the certificate, as the case may be, within the prescribed period shall, on con- viction, be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.

(2) Any court trying any such offence shall in addition direct that the person keeping the place of public entertainment, or the eating house, in respect of which the offence has been committed shall close such place, or eating house until he obtains a licence or fresh licence, or a certificate of registration or fresh certificate of registration, as the case may be, in respect thereof and thereupon such person shall forthwith comply with such direction.

(3) If the person fails to comply with any such direction, he shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may ex- tend to one month or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees or with both.

Pehalty for not obtaining licence in res- pect of place of public entertain- ment or certificate of regis- tration in respect of eating house or for Siot re- newing such licence or certi- ficate within prescrib- ed period.

(4) Without prejudice to any action taken under sub-section (3), on the failure of such person to comply with the direction of the court, any police officer authorised by the Commissioner of Police, by an order in writing, may take or cause to be taken such steps and use or cause to be used such force as may, in the opinion of such officer, be reasonably necessary for securing compliance with the court's direction.

113. (1) Whoever contravenes, disobeys, opposes or fails to conform

to any order piven by a police officer under section 29 shall, on convic- tion, be punished with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees.

(2) Whoever contravenes a notification or an order made under sec- tion 30, section 32, section 33 or section 34 or abets the contravention thereof shall, on conviction, be punished—

Penalties for contra- vention of orders, etc., un- der sec- tions 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 34.

(a) if the said notification or order was niade under sub-section (I) of section 30 or under section 33 or section 34, with Imprlson-

merit for a term which shall not be less than four months but which may extend to one year, and shall also be liable to fine:

Provided that the court may, for adequate and sufficient reasons to be mentioned in the judgment, impose a sentence of imprison- ment for a term of less than four months;

(b) if the said order was made under sub-section (2) of section 30, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both: (c) if the said notification was made under sub-section (3) of

section 30, with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees; or

(d) if the said order was made under section 32, with imprison- ment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.

(3) Whoever¹ opposes or fails to conform to any direction given by a police officer under section 31, shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees.

114. Whoever contravenes, or abets the contravention of, any regula- tion, noitice or order made under section 35, section 36 or section 37 shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, or with both.

Penalty for con- travention of regula- tions, etc., made under sections 35, 36 and 37.

115. Whoever opposes or fails to conform to any direction issued under section 46, section 47 or section 48 or abets the opposition to, or the failure to conform to, any such direction shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment which shall not be less than four months but which may extend to one year and shall also be liable to fine:

Penalty for con- travention of direc- tions under section 46, 47 or 48.

Provided that the court may, for adequate and special reasons to be mentioned in the judgment, impose a sentence of imprisonment for a term of less than four months.

116. Without prejudice to the power to arrest and remove a person in the circumstances, and in the manner provided in section 53, any person who—

(a) in contravention of a direction issued to him under section 46, section 47 or section 48 enters or returns without permission to Delhi, or any part thereof, as the case may be, from which he was directed to remove himself; or

Penalty for enter- ing with, out per- mission area from which a person ia directed to remove himself or over- staying.

(b) enters or returns to Delhi or any part thereof with per- mission granted under sub-section (1) of section 54, but fails, con- trary to the provisions thereof, to remove himself outside such area at the expiry of the temporary period for which he was permitted to enter or return or on the earlier revocation of such permission, or having removed himself at the expiry of such temporary period or on revocation of the permission, enters or returns thereafter, without fresh permission,

shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to two years and shall also be liable to fine:

Provided that the court may, for adequate and special reasons to be mentioned in the judgment, impose a sentence of imprisonment for a term of less than six months.

117. Whoever contravenes any order made under section 57 ahall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may ex- tend to three years, or with fine, or with both.

Penalty for con- travention of orders under section 57.

118. Whoever opposes or fails forthwith to comply with any reasona- ble requisition made by a police officer under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 59, or abets the opposition thereto or failure to comply therewith, shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than four months but which may extend to one year and shall also be liable to fine:

Penalty for opposing or not complying with direction •"iven under clause (b)

Provided that the court may, for adequate and special reasons to be mentioned in the judgment, impose a sentence of imprisonment for a term of less than four months.

of sub- section. (1) of section 59.

119. Whoever opposes or fails to conform to any direction given by any police officer under section 65 or abets the opposition or failure to conform to such direction shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.

Penalty for con- travening directions under section 65.

Dangerous perform- ances.

120. (1) No person shall without the previous permission of the Com- missioner of Police and except in accordance with any conditions subject to which such permission is granted, hold or give in any place which is likely to cause an assembly of persons, any performance in which or during which he buries himself under ground or seals himself in any room or receptacle or other thing, in such manner as to prevent all access of air to him and for such time as would ordinarily result in death by suffocation.

(2) If any person contravenes or attempts to contravene the provisions of sub-section (3), he shall, on conviction, be punished with imprison- ment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine, or with both.

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(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Pro- cedure, 1973, the offence punishable under this section shall be cogniza- ble.

Neglect or refusal to serve as special police officer.

121. (1) Any person, who having been apppinted to be a special police officer under section 17 shall without sufficient cause neglect or refuse to serve as such or to obey any lawful order or direction that may be given to him for the performance of his duties as such special police officer, shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.

(2) Such punishment shall automatically cancel the certificate of

appointment of such a special police officer.

122. (a) Any person who makes a false statement or uses a false document for the purpose of obtaining employment or release from em- ployment as a police officer, or

(6) any police officer who—

(i) is guilty of cowardice, or

(ii) being a police officer of subordinate rank, resigns his office

or withdraws himself from duties thereof in contravention of section

25, or

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Penalty for making false state- ment, ete., and for mis- conduct of police officers.

(iii) is guilty of any wilful breach or neglect of any provision of law or of any rule or regulation or any order which he is bound to obseive or obey, or

(iv) is guilty of any violation of duty for which no punishment

is expressly provided by any other law in force,

shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to one hund- red rupees, or with both.

Eacplanafton.—A police officer who being absent on leave fails without reasonable cause to report himself for duty on the expiration of such leave shall, for the purpose of sub-clause (ii) of clause (b), be deemed to withdraw himself from the duties of his office within the meaning of section 25.

123. Any police officer, who wilfully neglects or refuses to deliver up his certificate of appointment or of office or any other article, in accor- dance with the provisions of sub-section (2) of section 26 shall, on con- viction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, or with both.

Penalty lor failure to deliver up ceiti-. flcate of appoint, ment or other articie.

124. Any police officer who—

(a) without lawful authority or reasonable cause enters or searches, or causes to be entered or searched, any building, vessel, tent or place; or

Vexatious entry, search, arrest, etc., by police officer.

(b) vexatiously and unnecessarily seizes the property of any

person; or

(c) vexatiously and unnecessarily detains, searches or arrests

any person; or

(d) offers any unnecessary personal violence to any person in

his custody; or

(c) holds out any threat or promise not warranted by law,

shall, for every such offence, on conviction, be punished with imprison- ment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.

125. Any police officer who vexatiously and unnecessarily delays the forwarding of any person arrested to a Magistrate or to any other authority to whom he is legally bound to forward such person, shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may ex- tend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.

Penalty for vexa- tious delay in for- warding a person,

arrested.

Penalty for un- authorised use of police unifcrnia.

126. If any person not being a member of the Delhi police wears, without the permission of an officer authorised by the Administrator in this behalf by general or special order, the uniform of the Delhi police or any dress having the appearance or bearing any of the distinctive marks of that uniform, he shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees.

Power to make re- gulations regarding carrying weapons without authority.

127. (1) The Commissioner of Police may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make regulations to provide that no person, other than a member of the armed forces of the Union acting as such or a police officer, shall go armed with any sword, spear, bludgeon, gun or other offensive weapon or with any explosive or corrosive substance in any street or public place unless so authorised by such authority as may be specified in such regulations.

(2) Any regulation made under sub-section (1) may provide that any person who goes armed in contravention of such regulation shall be liable to be disarmed by any police officer and the weapon or sub- stance so seized shall be forfeited to the Government, unlesa redeemed within two months by payment of such fine, not exceeding five hundred rupees, as the Commissioner of Police imposes.

128. It shall not, except in obedience to a rule, regulation or order made by the Administrator or by the Commissioner of Police, be incumbent ion the Delhi police to prosecute for an offence punishable under section 97, section 104, sub-section (1) of section 113, section 114, stection 119 or section 121 when such offence has not occasioned serious mischief and has been promptly desisted from on a warning being given.

Prosecu- tion for certain oflenceB against thia Act to be in the discre- tion of Delhi police.

Summary disposal of certain cases.

129. (1) A court taking cognizance of an offence punishable under section 97, or under clause (a), (b) or (c) of section 110 may state upon the summons to be served on the accused person that he may> by a specified date, prior to the hearing of the charge plead guilty to the charge by registered letter and remit to the court such sum not exceeding one hundred rupees in the case of an offence punish- able under section 97 and in any other case rupees fifty, as the court may specify,

(2) Where an accused person pleads guilty and remits the sum specified in the summons, under sub-section (1), no further proceedings in respect of the offence shall be taken against him.

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130. Subject to the provisions contained in section 300 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, nothing in this Act shall be consitrued/ to pre- vent any person from being prosecuted and punished under any other law for anything made punishable by this Act or from being prosecuted and punished under this Act for anything made punishable under any ^ " ^ j '? other law.

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Prosecu- tion for offences under other enact- ments not affected.

131. (1) Where an offence under this Act has been committed by a company, every person who at the time the offence was committed, was in charge of, and was responsible to, the company for

Offence by com- panies.

the conduct of the business of the company, as well as the company, shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly:

Provided that nothing contained in this sub-section shall render any such person liable to any punishment provided in this Act, if he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge or that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of such offence,

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where an offence under this Act has been committed by a company and it is proved that the offence has been committed with the consent or connivance of, or that the commission of the offence is attributable to, any neglect on the part of any director, manager, secretary or other officer of the company, such director, manager, secretary or other officer shall also be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

Explanation.—For the purposes of this section,—

(a) "company" means a body corporate, and includes a firm or other association of individuals; and

(b) "director", in relation to a firm, means a partner in the firm.

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Disposal of fees, rewards, etc. 132. All fees paid for licences or permissions granted under this Act, and all sums paid for the service of processes by police officers and all rewards, forfeitures and penalties or shares thereof, which are by law payable to police officers as informers shall, save in so far as any such fees or sums belong under the provisions of any enactment for the time being in force to any local authority be credited to the Government:

Provided that with the sanction of the Administrator or under any rule made by the Administrator in that behalf, the whole or any portion of any such reward, forfeiture or penalty may for special services, be paid to a police officer or be divided amongst two or more police officers.

Method of proving orders and notifica- tions.

133. Any order or notification published or issued by the Adminis- trator or by the Commissioner of Police or any other police officer under any provision of this Act, and the due publication or issue there- of may be proved by the production of a copy thereof in the Official Gazette, or of a copy thereof signed by the Administrator¹ or Commissioner of Police or other police officer, as the case may be, and by him certified ta be a true copy of an original published or issued according to the pro- visions of this Act applicable thereto.

134. No rule, regulation, order, direction, adjudication, inquiry or notification made or published and no act done under any provision of 'this Act or any rule or regulation made under this Act, or in substan- tial conformity with the same, shall be deemed illegal, void, invalid or insufficient by reason of any defect of form or any irregularity of procedure.

Rules, regula- tions or orders not invali- dated by defect of form or irregula- rity in procedure.

135. Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time be- ing in force, in a prosecution for an offence for the contravention of an order made under section 46, section 47 or section 48 on the production of an authentic copy of the order, it shall, until the contrary is proved by the accused, be presumed—

(a) that the order was made by the authority compeftent under

this Act to make it;

Presump- tion in prosecu- tions for contraven- tion of order made under section 46, 47 or 48.

(b) that the authority making the order was satisfied that the grounds on, or the purpose for, which It was made existed, and that it was necessary to make the same; and

(c) that the order was otherwise valid and in conformity with

the provisions of this Act

Officers holding charges of, or suc- ceeding to, vacancies competent to exer- Lise powers.

136. Whenever In consequence of the office of the Commissioner of Police, Additional Commissioner of Police or any other police officer be- coming vacant, any officer holds charge of the post of such Commissioner of Police, Additional Commissioner of Police or other police officer or succeeds, either temporarily or permanently, to that post, such officer shall be competent to exercise all the powers and perform all the duties respectively conferred and imposed, by or under this Act on the Commissioner of Police or on such Additional Commissioner of Police or other police officer, as the case may be-

137. If any person permitted to enter or return to the area from which he was directed to remove himself under sub-section (1) of section 54, fails to observe any condition imposed under that sub-section or by the bond executed by him thereunder, his bond shall be forfeited and any person bound thereby shall pay the penalty thereof or show cause to the satisfaction of the court why such penalty should not be paid.

Forfeiture of bond entered into by person under sub-sec- tion (1) of section 54.

138. No police officer shall be liable to any penalty or to payment of any damages on account of an act done In good faith In pursuance of or purported to be done in pursuance of any duty imposed or any authority conferred on him by any provision of this Act or any other law for the time being in force or any rule, regulation, order or direction made or given thereunder.

No police officer to be liable to penalty or damage for act done In good faith in pursuance of duty.

139. No public servant or person duly appointed or authorised shall be liable to any penalty or to payment of any damages for giving effect in good faith to—

(a) any order or direction issued with apparent authority by the Administrator tfr by a person empowered in that behalf under this _ iVJ^'.^i Act; or

(b) any rule or regulation made under ithis Act.

Eocplanation.—In this section, the expression "public servant" has the

45 of 18S0. meaning assigned to it in section 21 of the Indian Penal Code.

N-o public servant liable as aforesaid for giving effect in good faith to any 1 ule, regulation, order or direction issued with ap. parent authority.

Bar to suits and prosecu- tions.

140. (1) In any case of alleged offence by a police officer or other per- son, or of a wrong alleged to have been done by such police officer or other person, by any act done under colour of duty or authority or in excess of any such duty or authority, or wherein it shall appear to the court that the offence or wrong if committed or done was of the charac- ter aforesaid, the prosecution or suit shall not be entertained and if en- tertained shall be dismissed if it is instituted, more than three months after the date of the act complained of:

Provided that any such prosecution against a police officer or other person may be entertained by the court, if instituted with the previous s=m tion of the Administrator, within one year from the date of the offence.

(2) In the case of an intended suit on account of such a wrong as aforesaid, the person intending to sue shall give to the alleged wrongdoer not less than one month's notice of the intended suit with sufficient des- cription of the wrong complained of, and if no such notice has been given before the institution of the suit, it shall be dismissed.

(3) The plaint shall set forth that a notice as afoiesaid has been serv- ed on the defendant and the date of such service and shall sltate what tender of amends, i[ any, has been made by the defendant and a copy of the said notice shall be annexed to the plaint endorsed or accom- panied with a declaration by the plaintiff of the time and manner of ser- vice thereof.

141. (2) Any licence or written permission granted under the provi- sions of -this Act shall specify the period and locality for which, and the conditions and restrictions subject to which, the same is granted, and .shall ibe given under¹ the signature of the compe'tent authority.

Licences and written permis- sions to specify conditions, etc., and to toe signed.

(2) Any licence or wriHen permission granted under this Act may at any time be suspended or revoked by the competent authority if any of its conditions or restrictions are infringed or evaded by the person to whom it has been granted, or if such person is convicted of any offence with respect to any matter to which such licence or permission relates.

(3) When any such licence or written permission is suspended or re- voked, or when the period for which the same was granted has expired, the persons to whom the same was granted shall, for all purposes of this

Act, be deemed to be without a licence or written permission, until the order for suspending or revoking the same is cancelled, or until the same is renewed, as the case may be.

(4) Every person to whom any such licence or written permission has been granted shall, while the same remains in force, at all rcason?,bie times, produce the same, if so required by a police officer.

Explanation.—For the purposes of this section any such infringement or evasion by, or conviction of, a servant or other agent acting on behalf of the person to whom the licence or written permission has been grant- ed shall be deemed to be infringement or evasion or, as the case may be, conviction of, the person to whom such licence or written permission has been granted.

Public notices how to be given.

142. Any notification which may be publicly promulgated, public notice required to be given, order required to be notified publicly or proclamation required to be issued under any of the provisions of this Act shall be in writing, under the signature of a competent authority and shall be published in the locality to be affected thereby, by affixing copies thereof m conspicuous public places, or by proclaiming the same with beat of drums or by advertising, the same in such local newspapers in Hindi, Urdu and English, as the competent authority may deem fit, or by any two or mo,re of these means and by any other means it may ihink suitable.

143. Whenever under this Act, the doing or the omitting [0 do any- thing or the validity of anything depends upon the consent, approval, declaration, opinion or satisfaction oi the competent authority, a written document signed by the competent authority, purporting to convey or set forth such consent, approval, declaiaUon, opinion or satisfaction shall be sufficient evidence thereof.

Consent, rt- , of a competent authority may be proved by writing under its signature.

Signature on notices, etc , may be stamp- ed.

144. Every licence, written permission, notke or other document, not being a summons or warrant or search warrant, required by this Act or by any rule oi regulation made thereunder, to bear the signature of the Commissioner oi Police, shall be deemed to be properly signed if it bears a facsimile of his rignature stamped thereon.

Persona interested may seek to annul, reverse or alter any rule or order.

145. (2) In the case of any rule or order made by the Administrator under an authority conferred by this Act and requiring the) public or a particular class of persons to perform some duty or act, or to conduct or order themselves or those under their control in a manner therein described, it shall be competent for any person interested to apply to the Administrator by a memorial to annul, reverse, or alter the rule or order aforesaid on the ground of its being unlawful, oppressive or unrea- sonable-

(2) After such an application as aforesaid and the rejection thereof wholly or in part or after the lapse of four months without an answer to such application or a decision thereon published by the Administrator, It shall be competent for the person interested and deeming the rule or order to be contrary to law to institute a suit in the principal civil court of original jurisdiction against the Administrator for a, declaration that the rule or order is unlawful either wholly or in part.

(3) Where in any suit instituted under sub-section (2) or on appeal therefrom, the court adjudges a rule or order to be unlawful, the rule or order shall be annulled or so altered as to make it conformable to law.

146. (1) The Commissioner of Police shall exercise all powers and discharge all functions which may be exercised or discharged by a Dis- trict Magistrate under the Acts mentioned in Schedule I including the rules made thereunder.

Powers of Commis. oioner of Police under other Acts.

(2) The Commissioner of Police may authorise any Additional Com- missioner of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police or Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police to exercise any of the powers or discharge any of the functions of the Commissioner of Police mentioned in sub-section (7) in accordance with the general or special orders of the Administrator.

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(3) The powers and functions of a District Magistrate under the Harais Act, 1867, shall be exercised and discharged by the Administrator or such officer as the Administrator may, by notification in the Official Gazette, authorise in this behalf.

PljWtiJ 147. (1) The Administrator may make rules for carrying out the pur- poses of this Act.

make ru.'p- (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the fore- going power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following mat- ters, namely: —

(a) recruitment to, and the pay, allowances and all other con- ditions of service of the members of, the Delhi police under clause (b) of section 5;

(b) the manner of publication, under sub-section (2) of section 17, by the Commissioner of Police, of the names of special police offi- cers appointed under that section;

(c) awarding of any of the punishments referred to in sub-sec- tion (1) or sub-section (2) of seel ion 21 to any police officer of sub- ordinate rank;

(d) procedure for awarding punishments under section 22;

(e) form of Discharge Certificate under sub-section (S) of section 25;

(f) determination of the cost of employing additional police under sub-section (2) of section 38;

(g) manner of taking measuremenis and photographs under section 55 of a person against whom an order has been made under section 46, section 47 or section 48;

(h.) manner ot constituting Defence Societies under sub-section (!) of section 58;

(i) form of receipt to be given in respect of any article detained under section 62;

(j) the authority to whose satisfaction claims are to be estab- lished under sub-section (2) of section 69 and the form and manner in which claims may be made under that sub-section, the procedure for dealing with such claims and all other matters connected there- with under sub-section (3) of that section;

(k) payment to any police officer or division among two or more police officers the whole or any portion of any reward, forfeiture or penalty, under the proviso to section 132;

(1) any other matter which hos to be, or may be, prescribed, or provided for by rules, under this Act.

148. (2) Every rule and regulation made under this Act shall be made by notification in the Official Gazette.

Notifica- tion ol rules and regu- lations in the Official Gazette and laying of rules and regu- lations.

(2) Every rule and regulation made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be com- prised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the succes- sive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or regulation, as the case may be, or both Houses agree that the rule or regulation should not be made, the rule or regulation shall there- after have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, asi the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule or regulation.

(3) Every rule and regulation made under this Act shall also be laid before the Metropolitan Council of Delhi.

149. (1) On the commencement of this Act the enactments specified in Schedule II shall cease to be in force in Delhi:

Provided that—

Cesser of operation of certain enact- ments and savings.

(i) all rules and standing orders made (including ihe Punjab Police Rules, as in force in Delhi), appointments made, powers con- ferred, orders made or passed, directions and certificates issued, consent, permit, permission or licence given, summons or warrants issued or served, persons arrested or detained or discharged on bail or bond, search warrants issued, bonds forfeited and penalties incur- red under any such enactment shall, in so far as they are consistent with this Act, be deemed to have been respectively made, con- ferred, passed, given, issued, served, arrested, detained, discharged, forfeited or incurred under this Act;

(n) all references in any enactment to any of the provi- sions of the enactments so ceasing to be in force shall, in relation to Delhi, be construed as references to the corresponding provisions of this Act.

(2) The cesser of operation under sub-seciion (I) of an enactment specified in Schedule II shall not affect—

(a) the validity, invalidity, effect or consequence of anything done or suffered to be done thereunder before the commencement of this Act;

(b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability already acquired, accrued or incurred thereunder before sfuch commencement;

(c) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred or inflicted in respect of any act thereunder before such commencement;

(d) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment; or

(c) any legal proceeding thereunder pending In any court or before any officer immediately before such commencement or any- thing done or suffered to be done in the course of such proceedings,

and any such proceeding or any appeal or revisional proceedings arising out of such proceeding shall, save as otherwise expressly provided in section 150 be instituted, continued or disposed of, as the case may be, as if this Act had not been enacted.

150. Without prejudice to the provisions contained in section 149,— Police Lorce func- tioning in Delhi im- mediately before the iyjm-

vniirice.

(a) the police force functioning in Delhi immediately before the commencement of this Act (hereafter in this section referred to as the existing police force) shall, on such commencement, be deemed to be police force constituted under this Act and every member of the existing police force holding the office mentioned in column (1) of Schedule III, immediately before such commence- ment, shall be deemed to be appointed, on such commencement, to the office mentioned m the corresponding entry in column (2) of that Schedule;

merit o± this Act lo L>e deemed to be police force constitut- ed under this Act. (b) all proceedings (including proceedings by way of investi- gations) pending before any police officer of the existing police force, immediately before the commencement of this Act shall on siuch commencement be deemed to be proceedings pending before him in his capacity as the holder of the office to which he is deemed to be appointed under clause (a) and shall be dealt with accordingly;

(c) where any power or function which may be exercised or discharged under any law by a District Magistrate or Executive Magistrate immediately before the commencement of this Act has been conferred on the Commissioner of Police or any other police officer by or under this Act, all proceedings in relation to or arising from the exercise of such power or the discharge of such function pending immediately before such conferment before the District Magistrate, or the Executive Magistrate, as the case may be, shall, on the conferment of such power or function on the Commissioner of Police or other police officer stand transferred to the Commissioner of Police or other police officer, as the c a se may be, and the officer to whom such proceedings stand so trans- ferred shall either proceed de novo or from the stage of such trans- fer.

Power to

remove

difficul-

ties

151. (I) If any difficulty ar.ses in giving effect to the provisions of this Act in consequence of the transition to the said provisions from the provisions of the enactments mentioned in Schedule II, the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make such provisions as appear to it to be necessary or expedient for removing the difficulty:

Provided that no such notification shall be issued after the expiry of two years from the commencement of this Act.

(2) Every notification issued under this section shall, as soon as may be after it is issued, be laid before each House of Parliament.

152. (1) The Delhi Police Ordinance, 1978 is hereby repealed.

Ord. 2 of 1978.

Repeal

and

saving.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the Ordinance so repealed shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of this Act.

SCHEDULE I

ISee section 146(1)]

PART I

CENTRAL ACTS

1. The Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867.

2. The Indian Explosives Act, 1884.

3. The Indian Lunacy Act, 1912.

4. The Poisons Act, 1919.

5. The Police (Incitement to Disaffection) A cs 1922.

6. The Cinematograph Act, 1952.

7. The Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act, 1956,

8. The Arms Act, 1959.

9. The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960.

PART II

DELHI ACT AND ACTS EXTENDED TO DELHI

1. The Madras Restriction of Habitual Offenders Act, 1948, as in force

in Delhi.

2. The Punjab Security of State Act, 1953, as in force in Delhi.

3. The Madras Dramatic Performances Act, 1954, as in force in Delhi.

4. The Delhi Public Gambling Act, 1955.

5. The Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959, as in force in Delhi.

SCHEDULE II

(See section 149)

No.

\ear

Short title

The Police Act, 1861.

V

1861

1872

IV

Section 40 of the Punjab Laws Act, 1872, as in

force in Delhi.

XXII

The provisions of the Boir.bay Police Act, 1951, as in

1951

force in Delhi.

SCHEDULE III

{See section 150;

Designation of officer in the Delhi

police

Posts to v/1 -ch the officers of the Delhi police shall be deemed to

be appointed

( 2)

CO

Commissioner of Police.

1. Inspector General of Police.

Additional Commissioner of Police.

2. Deputy Inspector General of Police.

Deputy Commissioner of Police.

3. Superintendent of Police.

Deputy Commissioner of Police, 4. Assistant Inspector General of Police.

Additional Deputy Commissioner of 5. Additio nal Superintendent 0 f Po lice.

Police.

Assistant Commissioner of Police.

6. Assistant Superintendent of Police.

Assistant Commissioner of Police.

7. Deputy Superintendent of Police.

S. HARIHARA IYER,

Secy, to the Govt. of India.

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