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L. A. BILL No. VI OF 2023.
A BILL
further to amend the Maharashtra Police Act.
WHEREAS it is expedient further to amend the Maharashtra Police Act,
for the purposes hereinafter appearing ; it is hereby enacted in the Seventy-
fourth Year of the Republic of India, as follows :—
XXII of
1951.
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In pursuance of clause (3) of article 348 of the Constitution of India, the following translation
in English of the Maharashtra Police (Amendment) Bill, 2023 (L. A. Bill No. VI of 2023), introduced
in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on the 25th March 2023, is hereby published under the
authority of the Governor.
By order and in the name of the Governor of Maharashtra,
SATISH WAGHOLE,
Secretary (Legislation) to Government,
Law and Judiciary Department.
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This Act may be called the Maharashtra Police (Amendment) Act,
2023.
2.
In section 2 of the Maharashtra Police Act (hereinafter referred to as
“ the principal Act ”), in clause (6),—
(a) after the signs and word “ “Commissioner ” ” the signs and words
“ “ Special Commissioner ” ” shall be inserted and shall be deemed to have
been inserted with effect from the 4th January 2023 ;
(b) after the words “ Commissioner of Police ” the words “ Special
Commissioner of Police ” shall be inserted and shall be deemed to have
been inserted with effect from the 4th January 2023.
3.
In section 7 of the principal Act, after clause (a), the following clause
shall be inserted and shall be deemed to have been inserted with effect from
the 4th January 2023, namely :—
“ (a-1) The State Government may also appoint the Special
Commissioner of Police for Brihan Mumbai.”.
4.
In section 25 of the principal Act, in sub-section (2), in clause (a), after
the words “Commissioner including” the words “ Special Commissioner ”
shall be inserted and shall be deemed to have been inserted with effect from
the 4th January 2023.
5.
Throughout the principal Act including preamble, for the words
“ Greater Bombay ”, wherever they occur, the words “ Brihan Mumbai ” shall
be substituted.
6.
Anything done or any action taken by the Special Commissioner of
Police in exercise of the powers conferred on him under any orders issued by
the State Government for the discharge of duties under the principal Act,
shall be deemed to have been done or taken, as the case may be, in accordance
with the provisions of the principal Act as amended by the Maharashtra Police
(Amendment) Act, 2023.
Short title.
Amendment
of section 2
of XXII of
1951.
XXII of
1951.
Amendment
of section 7
of XXII of
1951.
Amendment
of section
25 of XXII
of 1951.
Saving.
Mah. of
2023.
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STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS.
Section 7 of the Maharashtra Police Act (XXII of 1951) provides
for the appointment of Commissioner of Police for Brihan Mumbai
or for any other area and also Additional Commissioners of Police
and Joint Commissioners of Police for any of such areas.
2.
With the progressively changing and expanding concept of
the duties and functions of the welfare State and consequently of
the Police Force, it has become necessary to bring about certain
changes in the existing provisions of the Maharashtra Police Act,
so as to enable Government as well as the Police Force to effectively
exercise its powers and perform its functions under the Act.
Therefore, one post in the grade of Additional Director General of
Police has been made available as Special Commissioner of Police
on the establishment of Commissioner of Police, Brihan Mumbai
vide Government Resolution, Home Department, No. IPS-2022/C.R.437/
Pol-l, dated the 4th January 2023, by the State Government for
Brihan Mumbai. For that purpose, the Government considers it
expedient to amend the Maharashtra Police Act for making statutory
provisions by inserting the reference of the said post in the Act.
3.
As the name of “ Greater Bombay ” is changed as “ Brihan
Mumbai ” by the Maharashtra Act No. XXV of 1996 with effect from
4th September 1996, the opportunity has also been taken to
substitute the term “ Greater Bombay ” as “ Brihan Mumbai ”
throughout the said Act. The Government, therefore considers it
expedient to amend the Maharashtra Police Act, suitably.
4.
The Bill seeks to achieve the above objectives.
Mumbai,
DEVENDRA FADNAVIS,
Dated the 28th February 2023.
Deputy Chief Minister.
ON BEHALF OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, STATIONERY AND PUBLICATION, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY DIRECTOR,
RUPENDRA DINESH MORE, PRINTED AT GOVERNMENT CENTRAL PRESS, 21-A, NETAJI SUBHASH ROAD, CHARNI ROAD,
MUMBAI 400 004 AND PUBLISHED AT DIRECTORATE OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, STATIONERY AND PUBLICATIONS, 21-A,
NETAJI SUBHASH ROAD, CHARNI ROAD, MUMBAI 400 004. EDITOR : DIRECTOR, RUPENDRA DINESH MORE.