  ' "  rorri genna ,  to   ~   the delhi police bill, 1978 ':" ,  l-fb be/as introduced in lok sabh~1 page ii, line 27,-;cgj: "e'rl-ect'!ng" ~ "erecting" 2 page iv, line 33,-t:at flats ,, ~ "e~,}' 3 page 10, in the marg:inal heading to, clause ~,-igt, "regulating 'o~ tra~fiplj '~"regulatipg 'traffic" 4 page 27, line 27,-(qi: "of sub- set16n (1j :of setion ')7", ~ 'tor sub-section (1) of s(;!et1on' ')7" s page 29, in''-the margirial:beading tq elalj"se ~,­m 'tperforme" ~ ''perforio "- ' 6 page 31, in the marginal hea~ing to clause·,69,-t:w: "cbvemment ment" ~  '~governm~nt  , 7 page 32, line 1'),-~ "jucial " ~ ",rjhdici"al'" 8 page 3'), line'29,": rar ''place se t apart for thepurpo se by the order of the comp~tent authority" tw ''public well, tank, re servoir, pond, poql, aqueduct or part of a river, streaxn,"  9 page 40, in the margirial he~d1ng to clause _1,11,-rs:u: "licencee " ~ "11censfie" 10 p~ge 41, line 1'),-, , m "the" ~ "fine" 11 page 44,tg£ the marginal heading to elause 130,-~ ''prqsecution for offences under other enactmen ts not ~reet~d" 12 page 46, 'in the m~rgina1 heading to clause 134,,-!ql: "rules, tiona or" ~ "rules,' regulations ,or" 13 page 49, line 5,-rsu: "discharged all" ~ "d! scharge all" 14 page 49, line 36,~ m ''photog~htt ~ ''photographs" 15 page 49, l:41e 37,~, m ''persons'' ~ "a pers)il" 16 page 50, line 5,-m "ord,inqpee" ~ "act" 17 page 51, line 11,-m "schedule iiii" ~ "behedule iu" 18 page 51, line 47,-after "such" ~ tla" 19 page 55, line 6,-nu: "no te " ~ ''no te is" 20 page 55, line 3 fl"om bottom,  !su: "terriory" ~ "territory" 21 page 56, line 8,-m "po sing':' ~ ''po sting" 22 page 59, line 27,-rsu: "clauses" ~ "clause" 23 page 65, line 7,-before ''no ttl wsert "( " 24 <hrrect line numbors on page s 46 and 48 new delhi;  jlw :n 110 of 1t7 ••  wbst  2 ii s '!'he delhi police: 13i~, 187ft  c~118ra  chapter 1 pjt!liminary1 short titl, extent and commencement 2 deftnitions  chapter n organisation, su'p!:rinten~ce and control of the police f'qrcz3 one police force for the whole of delhi 4 superintendence of police force to vest in the administrator 5 constitution of police force 6 commissioner of police 7 additional comniissionet of pulice 8 deputy, additio!lal deputy and assistant commissioners of pclice 8 itppotntment of principals of police training institutions 10 constitution of police distttets, sub·divi&ions and police stations 11 officers in charge of police districts, police sub-divisions and police stations 12 appointment of subordinate ranks 13 certificate of appointment 14 effect of suspension of jrolice officer 15 general powers of cmnmission-er of police ii: power of commissioner of police td investigate and regulate matters of police accounts 17 special police officers 18 additional police officers  chapter tir regulation, control ann disciplinf of the delm pouce19 p'raming of regulationll for administration of the police 20 commissioner of police may call for retums 1626 ls-l  clattszs21 powers of punishment 12 procedute for awarding punishments 23 appeal froon orders of punishment u police offtcers to be deemed to be always 'on duty and to be liable to emptloyment in any part of delhi 151 oreumstances under which police officer of subordinate rek may resign 16 certificate, arms, etc, to be deuvered by person ceasing to be a pollce oftlcer 17 oecupation of, and uabulty to v~te,prem1ees provic1eci for pollee ofbcen  chapter iv polici: ugulations28 power to make regulations for regulating traffic and for preservation of order in public places, etc 29 power to give directions to the public 30 power to prohibit cei"tain acts for prevention of disorder 31 police to provide against disorder, etc, at places of public amusement or public assembly or meeting 32 power to prohibit, etc, continuance of music, sound or noise 33 issue of order for prevention of riot, etc 3(, )iaintenance of order at religious or ceremonial display, etc 35 commissioner of police may take special measures to prevent outbreak oj epidemic disease at fairs, etc 36 power to reserve street or other' public place for public purpose and power to authorise errecting of barriers in streets 37 power to make regulations ptohibiting disl>sal of the dead except at places set apart  chapter v special measures for maintenance of public order and security or state38 employment of additional police to keep peace 39 employment of additional police in cases bf sp!ecial danger to public peace  fo employment of additional police at large work and when apprehension regarding behaviour of employees exists 41 compensation for injury caused by unlawful assembly how recoverable 42 disjalte in regard to cost of deputing additional police or com  densation under section 41  clauses43 recovery ot amount payable under section 38, 39, 40 or 41 44 collector to award compensation 45 recovery of amounts payable under sections 39 and 41 46 dispersal of ganes and bodies of persons 47 removal of persons about to commit oft'ences 48 removal of persons convicted of certain offences 49 period of operation of orders under section 046, 47 or 48 50~ hearing to be given before order undet section 46, 47 or 48 it pased 51 appeal against orders under section 46, 47 or t48 52 finality of order in certain cases 53 procedure on failure of person to leave the area and his entry therein after removal 54 temporary permission to enter and consequences of non-observance of conditions of such permission 55 taking measurements and photographs, etc, of pei'sons aeainst whom an order under section 46, 47 or 48 is made 56 resistance to the taking of measurements, etc 57 banning of use of dress, etc, resembling uniform of armed forces 58 constitution of defence societies  chapi'er vi executive duties and powers of police officds59 duty of police officer to enforce provisions of the act 60 other duties of a police officer 61 power to enter places of public resort 62 power to search suspected persons in street, etc 63 emergency duties of police 64 superior police officer may himsejf perform duties imposed on a subordinate officer 65 persons bound to comply with the reasonable directions of pollee officer  chapter vii powers in relation to uniclaimed property 66 police' ···to" take charge of unclaimed ptoperty 67 procedure for disposal of pr'operty taken charge of under section 66· 68 delivery of property to person entitled  clauses69~ in default :of claim, property to be at disposal of government  chapter viii special provisions relating to exebclse of powers under ~ code of criminal proceuure, 197370 power of central government to authorise commisaiolwr of police and certain other officers to exercise powers of district magistrates and executive magistra under the code of criminal procedure, 1973 71 notifications under section 70 to be laid before parliament 72 referettees to judichtl magistrate 'of the finlt cia in aeetiona 108, 109 and 110 of the code of criminal proce~ 1973 dot to be construed as references to an executive magistrate  chapter ix special rowers under the prevention of cruelty to animals aer, 196073 powers with regard to offences under act 59 of 1960 74 powers of metropolitan magiltra~ to return animal to persoll from whose possession it was taken 75 veterinary officer to examine the animal 76 anima~ to be dealt with under act 59 of 1960 77 power of police officer to unaaddle amrnal or to wlload it 78 anest without waltani in case of certain offences under act 59 of 1960 79 provisions of chapter to be in addition to the provisions of act 59 of 1960  chapter x offences and punishments80 disregarding the rules of the road 81 causing obstruction or mischief by animal 82 exposing animal for hire, sale, etc 83 causi~ any obat4w:tion in a street 84 obstructing a footway 85 causing obstruction and annoyance by performances, ets 86 doing offensive acts in or near a street or public place 87 letting loose horse, etc, and suffering ferocious doia te be t large • 88 bathing or washing in places not set apart for ,  purposes 89 defiling water in public wens, etc  clauses9o~  ~a 91 behaving indecently in public 92 obsttucj or aanaylag pushi8i's in tae a$reet a uilbebayi~ wiul in_t to pravolle a 8naca f the palce '94 prohibition against flying kites, etc  • commlttijtg nai!aftee in or near street, ete 96 disregard of notice in public building 97 penalties for offences under sections 80 to 96 9b penalty fbr failure to keep in confinement cattle, etc 99 punishment for cruelty to animals 100 wilful trespass 101 false atamn 9f fire or damaie ·to fire alarm 102 being found under suspicious ~ea brweea innset and sunrise 103 posaession of ptqperty of which no satisfactory accouat can be given 104 omission by pawn brokers, etc, to repgrt to pollee posrsilion or tender of property iwlpected to be stolen 105 melting, etc, of property referred to in section 104 106 taking pledge from child 107 suffering disorderly conduct at places of public amusement, etc 108 cheating at games and gambling in street 109 penalty for disobedience to order udder aection 37 ~1()' rw1lj f~ ~v_n& ~1tj,qu etc, udder aectioa, 21 ill liability of licensee of place of pu~lie amasemewt or entertaidlj¥r~ foi: acta qf l8l'¥ant& 112 penalty for not obtaining licence in respect of place of public edtutailnllent or gerti&ate of reaistration in respect' of eating house or for not renewing such licence or eertificate within prescribed period 113 penalties for contrlweqtifnl of orders, ejlc, ~er aections 29, 30, 31j 32, 33 and 34-ll4tpe~lt~ for contravention of tegulations, etc, made under ~ tions 35, 36 and 37 1115 penalty for contravention of directions under section 46, 47 or 41 ) 16 penalty for entering without permission area from which a ,, ii c1treetiq4 til nmrne biiili8lt or ope!lbtayjiiw who permitted to return temporarily 117 penalty for contraventioa 01 ordeu uader ecticm 57 11&  'toy  awoail'l  , aot, ogmj»jrijlg! with dkeauon awe under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of va ~ 119 penalty for contravening directions unc:h!r! section 88; 120 dangerous performances 121 neglect tjr refijsil to serve as special police offtcer 122 penalty· for making false statement, ·ete;, "and for misconduct of police officers 123" penalty for failure to deliver up certificate of appoin~ment or other article 124 vexatious entry, search,arrest etc, by police officer ; "',  125 penalty far vexatious delay in forwarding a person an'qted 126 penalty for unauthorised u~e of police uniforms 127 power to make regulations regarding carrying weapons without authority ' 128 prosecution for certain offences against this act to be in the "cliacretioil of delhi police 129 summary disposal of certain cases 130 prosecution for offences under other enactments not a1fected 131, ojfences by companies  chapter xi misceit  aneous132 disposal of fees, rewards, etc 133 method of proving orders and notifica~ons 134 rules, regulations or orders not invalidated by defect of form or irregularity in procedure 135 presumption in prosecutions for contravention of order mad under section 46, 47 or 48 136 officers holding charges of, or succeeding to, vaeancles competent to exercise powers 137 forfeiture of bond entered into"by" pers':m 'under bub-section (1) of section 54 138 no police officer to be liable to penalty or damage for act done in good faith in punuance of duty  139 no public servant liable as afore~d for giving ~t in good faith to any rule, regulation, order or directipnlssued with apparent authority ' 140 bar to s~ts and prosecutions 141 licences and written permissions to specify emiiiition, etc, and to be signed 142 public nc1tices how to 1)e given 143 consent, etc, of a competent authority may be prcwe4 by writing under its slgnature' '  j i l l   clavses144 signature on notices, etc, may bq stamped 145 persons interested may seek to annul, reverse or alter any ruio or order 146 powers of commissioner of police under other acts 147 power to make rules la notification of rules and regulations in the oftlcial gazette ana laying of rules and regulations 149 cel88l' of operation of certain enactments and lavinp 150 police force functioning in delhi immediately before the ~ mencement of thia act to be deemed to be pollee force constituted under this act 151 power to remove difilcultier 152 repeal and saving schedule i schedule ii schedule iii  the delhi police bill, uns billto amend and consolidate the law relating to the tegulation of th~ polk- in the union territory of delhi be it enacted by parliament in the twenty-ninth year of the republic of india as follows:- chaprer i prelmunar'y1 (1) this act may be called the delhi police act, 1978 5 (2) it extends to the whole of the union territory of delhi short title, extent and commencement (3) it shan be deemed to have come into force on the 1st duy of july, 1978 2 in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,-definitions 10 (4) "administrator" means the administrator of delhi appointed under articl'€' 239 of the constitution; (b) "cattle" includes elephants, camels, horses, asses, mulet, iheep, goats and swine; (e) "competent authority", when used with reference to the exercise 'of any power or discharge of any duty under the provisions of )thi$ act, means the commissioner of police appointed under s section 6 or any other police officer specially ,empowered in that behalf by the central government; (d) "constable" means a police officer of the lowest grade; (e) "corporation" means the municipal corporatijon of delhi constituted under the delhi municipal corporation act, 1957; 10 86 of 1951 (1) "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 per9:>ns appointed as special police officers under sub-section (1) of section 17 and additional police officers is appointed under section 18; and (ii) au other persons, by whatever name known, who exercise any police function in any part of delhi; (h) "eating house" means any place to which the public are admitted and where any kind of ~ood or drink is supplied for con- 20 bumption on the premises by any person owning, or having any interest in, or managing, such place and includes--(i) a refreshment room, boarding house or coffee house, or (ii) ii shop  where any kind of food or drink is supplied to the public for consumption in or near such shop, 25 but does not include a place of public entertainment; (i) "municipality" means the new delhi municipal committee, 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 in any part of delhi; 30 (;) "place" includes-(i) any building, tent, booth or other erection, whether permanent or temporary; and (ii) any area, whether enclosed or open; (k) "place of public amusement" means any place where music, 3s 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 thtose admitted and includes a race course, circus theatre, music hall, billiard or bagatelle 40 room, gymnasium, fencing school, swimming pool or dancing hall; (1) "place of public entertainment" means a lodging bouse, boarding and lodging bou&e or residential hostel and includes any eating house or other place in which any kind of liquor or intoxicating drug is supplied (such as a tavern or a shop where beer, 4s spirit, arrack, toddy, ganja, bhang or opi'um is supplied) to the public for consumption in iof near such place; (m) "police officer" means any member of the delhi police; (n) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules; 5 (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! 10 washing or bathing or ibr purposes of recreation; (p) "regulations" means regulations made under this act; (q) "rules" means rules made under this act; (1') "street" includes any highway, bridge, way over a causeway, viaduct or arch or any road, lane, footway, square, court, is alley or passage accessible to the public, whethler or not it is a thoroughfare;  (s) "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· 20 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, superintendience and control of the police force3 there shall be one police force for the whole of delhi and all om-25 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 force 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, direction or supervision exercisable by any officer over any member of the 30 police force shall be exercisable subject to such superintendence superintendence of police force to vest in the administrator 5 subject to the provisions of this act,-constitution of police force (a) the delhi police shall consist of luch number in the lever'" ranks and have such organisation and such powers, functions and duties as the administrator may, by general or special order, determine; and 3s (b) the recruitment to, and the pay, allowances and all other conditions 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 the recruitment to, and the pay, allowances and other conditions of service of the members of the indian poliee service or the delhi, andaman and nicobar islands police service commi8 aioner of police 6 f01' the direction and supervision of the police foree in delhi, the 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 undet" this act 7 (1) the administrator m y appoint one or more additional com-5 missioners of police for tbe purposes of this act additional conunissioner of police (2) the additional commisvoner of police shall-(a) assist the commissioner of police in the exercise of bis powers and the performance of his duties in such manner and to such extent, and 10 (b) exercise such powers and perform such dnties of the commissioner of police and within such local limits, as the administrator may, by general or ~ial order, specify 8 (1) the administrator may appoint one or more deputy commissioners of police or additional deputy commissioners of police or assistant commissioners of police for the purposes of this act 15 deputy, additional deputy and assistant commissioners of police (2) without prejudice ~ the other provisions of this act and subject to any general or special orders made by the administrator in this behalf, every deputy conmussioner of police or additional deputy commissioner of police( or assistant commissioner of police shall, under 20 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 !luch orders 9 (1) (a) the administrator shall appoint a police officer not below 25 the rank of a deputy commissioner of police to be the principal of the police training school for delhi (b) the commissioner of police may by 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 30 appointment of principalo; of police training institutions (2) (a) the administrator may establish a poli~e training college for delhi and appoint 8 police officer of appropriate rank to be the principal of ~ucb college (b) the conunissioner of poli~e may by general or special order assign to the principal of the police training college such powers and 35 duties 8s br may deem fit for tbe proper ,administration of that college 10 subject to the control of the administrator, the commissioner at police shall-(a) constitute pojice districts within delhi; (b) divide 'such police districts into police sub-divisions and 40 specify the police stations comprised in each such sub-division; and constitution of police districts, rub-divlo;ions ani! pollee idatlons (c) define the limits and extent of such police districts, pollce rub-divisions and polic(' stations 11 (1) each police district shall be under the charge of a deputy commissioner of police who may be assisted in the discharge of his duties by one or more additional deputy commissioners of police (2) each police sub-division shall be under the charge of an assis-5 tant commissioner of police and each police station shall be under the charge of an inspector of police officers hi charge of police districts, police subdivisions and police stations 12 subject to such general or special orders in writing al the administrator may make in this behalf,-appointment of subordinate ranks (a) inspectors of police may be appointed by the additional comndssioner of police; and 10 (b) sub-inspectors of police aad other officers of subordinate rank may be appointed by the deputy commissioners of police, additional deputy commissioners of police, principal of the police training college or of the police training school, or any other polic'j officer of equivalent rank 15 13 (1) every police officer of the rank of inspector and below shall on enrolment receive a certificate of appointment certificate of ap_ pointment (2) the certificate shall be issued under the seal of such officer, and shall be in such form, as the administrator may, by ieneral or special 20 order, specify (3) a certificate of appointment shall become null and void when the pel's in named therein ceases to belong to the delhi police or shall remaill inoperative during the period such person is suspended from the delhi police effect of suspension of police officer 25 14 the powers, functions and privileges vested in a police officer shall remain suspended while such police officer is under suspension from office: provided that notwithstanding such suspension such person shall not cease to be a police officer and shall continue to be subject to the control 30 of the same authorities to which he would have been subject it he had not been under suspension general powers ot commissioner of police 15 the commissioner of police shall direct and regulate all matters of arms, drill, exercise, observation of persons and events, mutual relations, distribution of duties, study of laws, orders and modes of proceedings 35 and all matters of executive detail or the fulfilment of their duties by the police force under him 16 the commissioner of police shall have the authority to investigate and regulate all m~tters of account connected with i the delhi police and ail persons concerned shall be bound to give him reasonable aid and faci-40 uties in conducting such investigation8 and to conform to his orders consequent thereto power of commissioner of police to investigate and regu-jate matters of pollee ac-counts special police offieera 17 (1) the commic;;sioner of police may, at any time, by a written order, signed by himself and sealed with his own seal, appoint any able bodied male person not lesl than eigbteen years of age, whom he coilliden fit, to be a special pulce ofticer to assist the delhi police on any occasiorl, when he has 1'08s0n to apprehend the occurrence of any riot or ii'8ve disturbance of the peace in any area and he is of opinion that the ordinary police force is not sufficient for the protection of persons residing, and for the security of property, within such area 5 (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 tu the appointment of any person as such special police oflicer may send his reasons for such objection to the com- 10 missioner of police within fifteen days of such appointment and the commissioner may accept such objection and cancel the appointment of such oflicer or, after giving to the objector an opportunity to be heard, reject the objection (4) every special police officer appointed under this section shall, on is 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 20 ordinary police officer additional police officers 18 where additional police officers are required to be deputed under section 38, section 39 or section 40 the commissioner of police may appoint such number of additional police officers as he considers necessary and every such additional police officer shall, on appointment,-25 (a) receive a certificate of appointment in such form as may be specified by the administrator in this behalf; (b) have such of the powers, priviieces and immunities and perform such of the duties of a police officer as are specifically mentioned in the certificate; and 30 (c) be subject to the same authorities as an ordinary police officer of the sadle or similar rank or grade  chapter iii regulation, control and discipline of the delm police19 subject to the orders of the administrrtor, the commissioner of 35 police may make regulations not inconsistent with this act or any other law for the time being in force-framing of regulations for administration of the poliee (a) regulatjng the inspection of the police force by his subordinates; (b) determining the description and quantity of arms, accoutre- 40 ments, clothing and other necessaries to be furnished to the police; (c) prescribing the places of residence of members of the pollee force; (d) for in&titution, management and regulation of any p011c8 tund for any purpose connected with poilice administration; (e) regulating the distribution, movements and location of the police; <f) assigning ciuties to police officers of all ranks and grades, and prescribing the manner in which, and the conditions subject to which 5 they shall exercise and perform their respective powers and duties; (g) regulating the collection and communication by the police off intelligle'j1ce and information; (h) generally, for the purpose of rendering the police efficient and preventing abuse or neglect of their duties 10 20 the commissioner of police may call for such returns, reports and statemenrts on any subject connected with the prevention ;:md detection of crime, the maintenance of order and the performance of the duties of his subordinates as such sll1'bordina1es may be able to furnish to him commissioner of police may call for returns powers of punishme'ht 21 (1) subject to the provisions of article 311 of the constitution l'i and the rules, the commissioner of police, additional commissioner of police, deputy commissioner of police, additional deputv commissioner of police, principal of the police training college or of the police trainint!' school or any other officer of equivalent rank, may award to any police officer of subordinate rank any of the following punishments, 20 namely:-(a) dismissal; (b) removal from service; (c) reduction in rank; (d) forfeiture of approved service; 25 (e) reduction in pay; (f) withholding lof increment; and (g) fine not exceeding one month's pay (2) subject to the rules-30 (a) any police officer specified in sub-section (1) may award the 1'unishment of censure to any police officer of subordinate rank; (b) the assistant commis,o;ioner of police may award the puniflhment !of censure to police officers of, or below, the rank of s'th-inspectors of police; 35 (ie) any police officer of, and above the rank of inspector ma~ award punishment drill not exceedin/l fifteen days or fatigue duty or any other punitive duty to constables (3) notbin/l in sub-section (l) or 8uh-sectil:>n (2) shall affect anv police officer's liability for prosecution and punishment for any offence committed by him 4e1 (4) the commissioner of police, additional commissioner of police deputy commissioner of police additional deputy commissioner of police principal 'of the police trainin/l college or of the police trainfn~ school assistant commissioner of police, or any other police offtcer of equivalent rank may suspend any police offeer of subordinate rank who is reasonably suspected to be guilty of misconduct, pending an investigation or enquiry into such misconduct  procedureawm,uing punishments (5) an inspector of police may suspend any police officer below the rank of su~inspector of police, who is reasonably suspected to be guilty of,r misconduct, pending an investigation or enquiry into such misconduct 22 when any officer passes an order of awarding a punishment of dismissal, removal from service, reduction in rank, forfeiture of service, 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-'nent (a) where the order is passed by the commissioner of police, 15 to the administrabr; (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 co-mmissioner of police, principal of the 20 police training college or s~hool assistant commissioner of policp or any other officer of equivalent rank, to the additional commissi'orter 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 25 ,"lice officer or any number or body of police officers allocated for duty in any part of delhi may if the commissioner iof police so diredc;, 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 !ouch other part of delhi 30 ,25 (1) resignatit:>n of any police officer of subordinate rank mav be accepted only by the officer empowered to appoint (the oftlcer so empowered' to appoint being hereafter in this section referred to as the appointing authority) oftlcers of such subordinate rank police officers to be deemed to be always on duty and to be liable to employment in rny part of deihl circums_ tance, under which police oftlcer of subordi-t'!f1te rank may resign (2) a police officer of subordinate rank who intends bo resign from 35 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 to resign by such authority and two ml':>nths have elapsed from the date on which he tendered his resignation: ' 40 provided that the appointing authority may at his discrethn, permit - '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 4s that period (4) inspectors, sub-inspect)rs or assistant sub-inspectors of police whole appointments in\tolve traininf at zrny 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 s 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 10 is responsible (6) notwithstanding anything 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 is 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, lor giving a ~ntisfactory security for the payment of, any debt due from him as such police officer to government or to any police fund: 20 provided that he shall forthwith return the certificate of appointment, arms, accoutrements, uniform and all other government property 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 2s shall be liable on the orders of the appointing authority to rorfeit all arrears of pay then due to him in addition to the penalty to which he may be liable under section 22 or nny other law for the time being in force (8) every such police officer on leaving the service in the delhi police ?o a~ aforesn id shall be given by the appointing authority a discharge certificate in such fotin as may be prescribed certificate, arms, etc, to be delivered by person ceasing tobea police officer 26 (1) every person who for any reason ceases to be a police officer shall forthwith deliver to the officer empowered by the commissioner of police, the additional commissioner of police, deputy commissioner of 3s police, principal of the police training college or of the police training school, arlditbnal deputy commissior,er 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, clothing and other accessories which have been provided to him for the per-40 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, the commissioner of police, additional commissioner of police, prin'cipal of the police training college or of the police trainit'g school or a deputy commissioner addi-45 tional dpputy commissioner or an assistant commissioner of police may issue a warrant to search for and seize wherever they be found, any certific1te, arms, accoutrements, clothing or other accessories not deliv~,:red under sub-section (1) (b) every warrant so issued shall be executed by a police oftlcer or, if the metropolitan magistrate or the police officer issuing the warrant so djrects, 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 2 of 1974 (3) nothing in this section shall apply in relation to any article which s under the orders of the commissioner of police has become the property ot; the person to whom the same was provided z1 (1) a police officer occtlpying any prpmises provided by the commissioner of police for his residence shall-(a) occupy the same subject to such terms and conditions as 10 may, by general or special order, be specified by the commissioner of police; and occupaliun of, aa4 liability to vacate, 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 poli~e or any officer authorised by is the administrator in this behalf considers it, for reasons to be recorded 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 authorised in this behalf by the administrator may order such person to 20 vacate the premises and may direct any police officer with such assistance as may be necessary to enter upon the premises and remove therefrom 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 regltl'\tions28, (1) the commissioner of police may by notification in the ofticial :i;ti~ette make regulations to provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:-(a) licensing and controlling persons offering themselves fol' 30 employment, outside railway stations and other places where passengers arrive, for the carriage of passenge,rs' baggages and fixing an!! providing for the enfor,cement of a scale o~ charges for the labour of such pereons so employed; power tit make regulations for regulating of trafhe and for preservation of  order in public places, (b) regulating traffic of all kinds in streets and other public 35 places, and the use of streets and other public places by persons riding, driving, cycling, walking or leading or accompanying cattle, so as to prevent danger, obstruction or inconvenience to the public; (e) regulating the conditions under which vehicles may remain ,s1;w1ding in st~ts and other public places, and the use of streets as 40 h~ting places for vehicles 01" cattle; (d) specifyinj[ the number and position of lights to be used on vehicles in streets anc! the hours between which such lights should be uiisci; <e) uced8tqg cl)nt~ilfn« or prohibiting the erection, exhibitio~' 45 n"ation or retention of any sign, gevjce or representation for the - i 5 purpose of advertisement, which is visible against the sky trom somi point in any street and is hoisted or held aloft over any land, building 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 repr~entation at that height being a distraction, or causing obstruction, to such traffic;  (t) specifying certain hours of the day during 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 spedfied streets; 10 (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 conveying timber, scaffold poles, ladders, iron girders, beams or bars, boilers or other unwieldy articles through the streets, and the route and hours for such conveyance; is (i) licensing, controlling or, in order to prevent obstruction, inconvenience, 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; 20 (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 persons deceased; (k) 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; 30 (l) setting apart places for slaughtering animals, the cleaning of carcasses or hides, the deposit of noxiou~ or offell~h,  matter and for obeying calls of nature; 35 (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 administrator, with'8 view to prevent the disease or check the sprf'a4 ~hereof 40 (n) directing the closing or disuse, wholly or 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; 45 (0) licensing, controlling or, in order to prevent obstr\1ctiort, inconvenience, annoyance, risk, danger or damage to the residents or passengers in the vicinity, prohibiting the playing of music, the beato ing lof drums, tom-toms or other instruments and the blowing 01" bounding (if horns or other noisy instruments in or near streets (if other public placesj (p) regulating the conduct of or behaviour or action of pet-iods oonstituting 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; s (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 ~ as· to obstruct traffic or the free access 01 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; 10 (8) licensing, controlling or, ir: order to prevent obstruction, inconveitience, annoyance, risk, danger or damage to the residents or passengers in the vicinity" prohibiting-(i) the illumination of streets and public places and the exteriors of building abutting thereon by persons other than ser- is 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, (iii) the using of a loudspeaker in or nenr any public place 20 or in any place of public entertainment; (t) closing certain streets or places temporarily, in cases of· danger from ruir:ous buildings or other cause, with such exceptions as shall appear reasonable; (u) guarding against injwy to person and prop~rty in the con- 25 struction, repair and demol,ition of buildings, pb "fu 'ms and other structures from which danger may arise to passen~er;, neighbours or the public; (v) prohibiting the setting of fire to or burning of any straw or other matter, or lighting a bonfire or wantonly discharging a fire-ann 30 or air-gun, or letting off or throwing a fire work or, sending up a fire bailoon 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 35 in this behalf; (w) regulating the hours during which and the manner in which any place for the dispoflal of the dead, any dharmashala, village-gate or other place of public resort may be used, so as to secure the equal and appropriate application of its advantages and 40 accommodation and to maintain orderly conduct amongst those who l'e51ol"t thereto; (x) (i) 1icen~ing or controlling places of public amusement or public entertainment; (ii) prohibiting the keeping of places of public amusement or 4s public enter,tainment or assembly, in order to prevent obstruction, inconvenience, annoyance, risk, danger or damage to the residen~ or passengers in the vicinity; and (iii) regulating the means of entrance and exit at places of public amusement or public entertainment or 8sl'5embly and providing for the maintenance of public order and the prevention of disturbance thereat; 5 (y) (i) licensing or controlling in the interest of public order, 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 dther performances for public amusement, including mezas; 10 (ii) regulating in the interest of public order, decency or morality or in the interest of the general public, t;ile employment of arti$tg and the conduct of the artists and the audience at such performances; (iii) prior scrutiny of 9llch performances and of the script3 in respect thereof, if any, and granting of suitability certifica~ there-15 for subject io conditions, if any, by a board appointed by the administrator for the purpose, either for the whole of delhi or for the area concerned or by an advisory committee constituted by the commissioner of police (the members of the board or the advisory commit~ being persons who in the opinion of the administrator or, as 20 the case may be, the commissioner, possess knowledge of, or experience dn, 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 authority, its appointment or constitution, its procedure and other matters 25 ancillary thereto, and the fees (whether in the rorm of court-fee stamps or otherwise) to be charged for the scrutiny ot such performances or scripts, for applications for obtaining such certiftcates and f'or i;suing duplicates thereof and in respect of such appeals; (iv) regulating the hours during which and the places at which 30 such performances may be given; (z) regulating or prohibiting the sal~ of any ticket or pass for admission, by whatever name called, to a place of public amusement; (za) registration of eating houses, including granting a certi-3s ficate lof 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 ally 40 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-45 rise any person to import export, transport, manufacture, sell or possess any liquor, or in1nxicating drug, in respect of which a lieene!, pennit, pass or authorisation is required under any law relating to prohibition which is for the time being in force (2) the power to make regulations under clause (b) of sub-seclion (1) shall be subject to the contml of the administrator and the power 5 to make ;regulations under the other clauses ~f that sub-section shall be subject to the previous sanction of the administrator (3) the power of making regulations under this section shall be subject to the condition i)f the regulations being made, after previous publication and for the purposes of section 23 of the r 0 general clauses act, 1897 such regulations shall be deemed to be rules; and every regulation made, under this section, shall also be publllshed in the locality affected thereby lyaftixing 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 r 5 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 ot 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 20 exlst which render it necessary tilat 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 by~law of the corporation or uf any other municipal or local authority in rela- 25 \10n 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 lathe public 2,9 the commissioner of police and, subject to the of'ders, if any, made by the commissioner of police, every police officer not inferior in rank to an inspector, may from time to time as occasion may arise, but 30 n{)t so as to corttravene any regulation made under section 28 or any law, rule, 01' bye-law referred to in sub-section (4) of that section, give all such orders either orally or in writmg ~ may be necessary to-(a) direct the conduct of, and behaviour or action of persons constituting pi'1ocessions or assemblies on or along streets; 35 (b) specify the routes by which and the times at which any such processions may pass or shall not pass; (c) prevent obstructions-(i) on tpe occasion of all processions and assemblies; and 40 (ii) in the neighbourhood of all places of worship during the time of worship; and  (iii) in all cases when any street or public place or place of public resort may be thronged or liable to be obstructed; (d) keep order on, and in, all streets, and at, and within, public 45 bathing and washing places, fairs, temples, mosques, gurdwaras, churcbesand all other places of public resort or publlc worship; - • j i (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; 5 u) regulate and o~ntrol the use of loudspeakers in residential areas, streets, near any public places and places of public amusement or public entertainment; or (g) make reasonable orders consequential to, and in furtherance of, any order made under this section 10 30 (1) the commissioner of police may, whenever and for such time as he shall consider necessary for the pr:eserv:l\lion of pljhlic 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 acts for prevention ot disorder 15 (a) the carrying of arms, cudgels, swocds, 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 20 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 (1) the delivery of harangues, the use of gestures or ii)imetic re-25 presentations, and the preparation, exhibition or dissemination of pictures, symbols, placards or any other subject or thing wbicp may, in the opinion of the commissioner of police offend agailllst decency or morality or undermine the security of the state' (2) if any person goes armed with any such article as is referred to 30 in clause (a) of sub-section (1) or carries any corrosive substance or explosive or m~ssile or instrument in contravention of any prohibition under that sub-section, the article, corrosive substance or explosive or missile shld] be liable to be seized from him by any pollee offi·cer  (3) the commissioner of police may, by notification publicly promul-35 ~ated, prohibit any assembly or procession whenever aj)d for sued time as he considers such prohibition to be necessary for  the preservation of the public 'order (4) no notification pfomlllgated under sub-section (3) shall rerrlpin ip force for more than fifteen days from the promulgation thereof: 40 providoo that if the administrator considers it necessary 9:1 to do for the preservation of the public order, he may, bv order published in the official gazette, direct that such notificationshau remain in force for such further t>eriod not exceeding six months from the date on which it would have, but for such order, expired as he may spedfy in the said 45 order police to provide against disorder, etc, at places of public amusement or public assembly or meeting 3l (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 officer of the rank of assistant sub-inspector and above, present at such s 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 11:> the mode of admission of the pu; llic to, and for securing the peaceful and lawful conduct of the proceedings and the maintenance of the public safety at, such place 10 of jmusement or such assembly or meeting as he thinks necessary and all persons shall be bound to conform to every such reasonable direction (2) every p'llice officer shall ha,ve free access to every place of public amusement, assembly or meeting for the purpose of giving effect 15 to the provisions of sub-section (1) and to any' dim'ection made thereunder power to prohibit, etc, continuance 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, 20 disturbance, discomfort or injury, or risk of annoyance, disturbance, discomfort 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 ~my person for preventing, prohibitin'g, conflroll'ing or regulating-25 (a) the incidence or continuance in any street, open space or any other premises of-(i) any voca] or instrumental music; (ii) sounds caused by the playing, beating, clashing, blowing or use in any manner whatsoever of any instrument, appu- 30 ance or apparatus lor contrivance which is capable of producing or reproducing sound; or ciii) 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 3! (b) the carrying ion, in any premises, of any trade, avocation or operation resulting in or attended with noise: provjded that no directions shall be issued to any person under clause (b) without giving to such person an opportunity of being heard in the ma-tter 40 (2) the commissioner t~f police may either on his own motion or on the application of any person aggrieved by an order made under sub-section (1), either rescind, modify or alter any such order: provided that before any such application is disposed of, the commissioner 'of police shall afford to the applicant an opportunity of 4s 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 prevention of  riot, etc a3 (1)' in' ord,t to preveh~' oj' luppress any riot fit ~v cus~  bance of peace, the commissionel' 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 s 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 exercise of his powers under this section ' (2) if the lawful occupant of such building or place sufferll any 10 lolls or injury by reason of the action taken under sub-section (1), he shall be entitled, on an application made therefor to the competent authority within one 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 rs by the use to which such building or place was put, or intended to be put, or by the misconduct of persons having access thereto (3) in thel event of any dispute in relation to the amount of compensation payable under sub-section (2) or the person to whom sw:h amount shan be payable, the matter shall be referred by the competent 20 authority to the district collector whose decision thereon shall be final mainten-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, ance of order at religioui 25 which, it shall appear to the competent authority that a dispute or contention exists, which is likely to lead to grave disturbance of the or cererno-nial display etc peace, ithe competent authority may give such orders as to the conduct of the persons concerned towards each other and towards the public as it shall deem necessary and reasonable under the circum-30 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 35 (3) every order under sub-section (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 competent authority that such order is inconsistent with a judgment, decree, injunction or order of such court commissionerot pollce may take special measures to prevent outbreak of epidemic diseare at fairs, etc 40, 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 45 corporation or municipality within the local limits of the jurisdiotion 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 ot so iuch disease or the spread thereof ~ ti> ~ ~nses 1ncurred by the commissioner of police itt r-peot bf the arrangements for ilanitation and the preservation of order at or about the place of assembly referred to in sub-section (1) may be recovered from the corporation 01' the municipality concerned 36 (1) the commissioner of police may, by public notice, tempo-s rarily reserve for any public purpose any street or other public place and prohibit persons from entering the area so reserved, except on such condi~ons as may be specified by him (2) the commissioner of police may, whenever in his opinion such action is necessary,-110 (a) authorise such police officer as he thinks fit to erect barriers on any street for the purpose of stopping temporarllj vehicles driven on such street so as to satisfy himself that the provisions of any law £or the time being in force have not been contravened in respect of any such vehicle or by the driver or the is person in charge of such vehicle; and power to reserve street or other public place for public purpose and power to authorise erecting of bar_ riera in streets (b) make such orders as he deems fit for regulating the use of such barriers 3'7 (1) the commissioner of police may, from time to time, make , regulations prohibiting the disp)sal of the dead, whether by cremation, 20 burial or otherwise at places other than those set apart for such purpose: 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 l·eauia tions prohibiting oisposal t-f the ciead except at places eet apart provided further that the commissioner of police or any officer ls authorised by him in this behalf may, in his discretion, on an application made to him by any person, grant to such person permission to dispose of the corpse of any deceased person at 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 not objec- 30 tionable for any other reason (2) a:oy 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 pur- 35 ' poses of section 23 of the general clauses act, 1897 and shall be subject 10 of 1891 to the condition iof 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 40  chapter v special meast1bes for maintenance of public order and security' of stateemployment of additional ;m)1ice to keep peace 38 (1) the commissioner of police may, on the application of any penon, depute any additional number of police to keep the peace, to 45 preserve order, to enforce any of the provisions of this act or of any otlaer law in respect of any particular class or classes of offences or to perform any other duties imposed on the pollee ~t any place in delhi $ (2) such additional police shall be employed at the cost (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 s 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 commissioner of police for the withdrawal of the said police be shall be 10 relieved from the cost thereof at the expiration of such period not exceeding olle 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 shail, on an application made in 15 that behalf by the aggrieved party, refer the matter to the district collector, whose decision thereon shall be final 39 (1) 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 employ_ ment ot additional police in cases ot special danger 20 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 to public peace 2s 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 ill h~ opinion it is necessary so to do in the interests of the public 30 (2) on the issue of a notification under sub-section (1), 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 00 such additional police generally from all persons who are inhabitants of the disturbed area or specially from any particular 35 section or class of such persons, and in such proportion as the administrator may direct (3) it ~haji be lawful for the administrator to exempt, hy order in writing, and for sufficient reasons, any person from liability to bear any portion of the cost of such additional police 40 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 45 occupants ~ land in such area notwithstanding that they do dot act"'" "ji)' reside then~ 40 (1), whenever it appears to the administrator or to the eompetent authority that-(a)' any large work which is beinl carried on or any public amusement which is beld,( conducted in any place is likely to impede the traffic or to attract a large number of people; or s (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 ot' in operation at any place necessitates the employment of additional police at such place, 10 employment of , additional police at large work and when apprehen_ sion regarding behaviour fjf em ployeel exiltl 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 administrator or the competent authority to continue (2) such additional police shall be employed at the cost of the is person by whom the work public amusement, manufactory or concern is being constructed, conducted or carried on and the said person shall pay the cosb therefor at such rates as the administrator or the competent authority, as the case may be, shan :from time to time require oil (1) when any loss or damage is caused to any property or when 20 death results or grievous hurt is caused to any person or persons, by anything done in the pr:osecution 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 which, and the date on which or the period during which, such un- 25 lawful assembly was, in his opinion, held compensation for injury caused by unlawful assembly how recoverable '(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 or persons in respect of the loss or damage or death or 30 grievous hurt aforesaid (3) the amount of the compensation shall be deemed to be a flne imposed under this sectilon, and shall be payable by the inhabitants of the disturbed area (4) it shall be lawful for the district collector to exempt, by order 35 in writing and for sufficient reasons, any person from liability to pay any portion of the compensation amount u in the event of any dispute relating to the cost payable under aection 39 or section 40 or the compensation determined under section 41 or the person or persons or the section or class of persons by whom or 40 the proportion in which such cost or compensation should be paid, the matter shall be referred by the collector, or the administrator 01' the competent authority, as the case may be, on an application made in that behalf by the aggrieved party, to the clu~ :metropoutan dispqttr 1a reglu'd to cost of deputini additional police or compej1lltlon under tfl~ion ~ i4ql1~~1 whole dedtt~ t~eoq·ahall be ~~ i 43 any amount payable under section 38, section 39, section 40 or aetion 41 shall be recovered in the same manner as if it were an arrear , land revenue reeo~ of amoudt payable under section 38, 39, 40 or 41 " (1) amounts payable u,der section 38, section 39, section 40 or collector s section 41 shall, when recover :d, be credited to the government to award compen-(2) the district collector shall pay, from the amounts recovered liation 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 suftered loss or damage to property or grievous hurt or to the 10 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 sectil()n, except when a claim has been made therefor within forty-five days from the date of the notification referred to in sub-section (1) of section 41 and the 15 district collector is satisfied that the claimant, where the claim is by the person who suffered the loss, damage lor 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 20 (4) the compensation payable to any person under sub-section (z) 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 25 or grievous hurt for which compensation has been granted under this section 2 of 1974 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 30 procedure, 1973, as if each such amount were a fine imposed on an offender by a court recovery of amounts payable under sectiona 39 and 41 disperaal of gan, and hodies of persona 46 whenever it appears to the commissioner of police that the movement or encampment of any gang or body of persons in any part of delhi is causing or is calculated to cause danger to person or property 3s or alarm or reasonable suspicion that unlawful designs are entertained by such gang or body of persons or by members thereof, the commissioner of police may, by order addressed to the persons appearing to be the leaders or chief men of such gang or body of persons and published by announcement or beat of drums, or otherwise as the commissioner 40 :!o,lice thinks fit direct the members of such gang or body of person&-(a) to so conduct themselves as shall seem necessary in ordel' to prevent violence and alarm; or (b) to disperse and to remove themselves beyond the limits of ~ of any ,n ~oof, wtthin uch ~e  the co~q_ of police shall specify and not to enter d~lhi t)r the part thereof, as the case may be, from which they were directed to remove themselves  47 whenever it appears to the commissioner of police-(a) that the movements or acts of any person are causing 01' 5 are calculated to cause alarm, danger or harm to person or property; or i removal of per son, about to commit offences (b) that there are reasonable grounds for believing that such person is engaged or is about to be engaged in the commission of an offence involvin~ force or violence or an offence punishable under 10 cbapter xii, chapter xvi, chapter xvii or chapter xxii of the indian penal code or under section 290 or sections 489a to 489e 45 of 1860 (both inclusive) of that code or in the abetment of any such offence; or  (c) that such person-is (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 persona by acts of violence or by show of force; or 20 (iii) habitually commits affray or breach of peace or riot or habitually makes forcible collection of subscription or threatena peop-ie for illegal pecuniary gain for himself or for others; or (iv) has been habitually passing indecent remarks on wo· men and girls, or teasing them by overtures; 25 and that in the opinion of the commissioner of police witnesses are not willing to come forward t:> give evidence in public against such person by reason of app'rehension on their part as regards the safety of their ret'son 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 30 tit, direct such person to so conduct himself as shall seem necessat'y in order to prevent violence and alarm or to remove himself outside delhi or anv part thereof, by such route and within such time as the commi  sioner of police may spf'('i~v and not to 'enter or return to delhi or oart thereof, as the case mny be, from which he was directed to rem'lve 35 himself explanation,-a person who durin~ a period within one year immediately preceding the commencement of an action under this section ha!'; 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 40 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; lor 45 of 1880 (b) of an offence under section 3 or section 4 of the delhi public 45 removal or per sons con· victed of certain offences gamb1in~ act 195fi or under section 12 of that act in so far as it delhi act relates to satta gamblin~ or on two or more occasions under any 9 at 1m other provision of that act (includ:nlz sectipn 12 qf ~~t act ill i)~ far ilj it doet ag$ relatf w att ,amblin,); dj (c) ot any oftenee under the suppression of immoral traffic hl \v omen and girls act, 1956; or  104 of 154 of 185jl (d) of any offence under section 25, section 26, section 27, section 28 or section 29 of the arms act, 1959; or 5~of 196~ (e) of any oftence under section 135 of the customs act, 1962; or 5 (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 aetno1i of 1955 (,9) on two or more occasions of an offence under-(i) the opium act, 1878; or 1 of 1878 (it) the dangerous drugs act, 1930; or 10 2 of 1930 (iii) the drugs und cosmetics act, 1940; or 23 of 1940 (it) section 11 of the bombay prevention of begging act, 1959, as in force in delhi; or bombay aetno to of 1980 (h) on three or more occasions of an offence under section 105 or section 107 of this act; 15 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 person to remove himself beyond the limits of delhi or any part thereof, by 20 such route and within such time as the commissioner of police may specify and not to enter or returll 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 25 specified therein, and shall in no case exceed a period of two years from the date on which it was made so (1) 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 infonn him of the general nature of the material allegations· 30 against him and give him a reasonable opportunity of tendering an ex" planation regarding them period of operation of order, under seetion 46, 47 or 48 hearinl to be given before order under section 46, 47,ot 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 35' 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 shull be entitled to be represented in the proceeding 40 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 45 with or without sureties for attendance during the inquiry (b' tlii provijlotls of sectiol1l 119 to 124 (boti11neluslve' of t}je codd ()f criminal procedure, 1973, shall, so far as may be, apply in relation to 2 rjll97i the order under clause ca) to furnish security bond (6) without prejudice to the foregoing provisions, the commissioner of police, while issuing notice to any ~rson under sub-section (1) may s issue a warrant for his arrest and the provisions of sections 70 to 89 (both inclusive) of the code of criminal procedure, 1973, shall, so far as 2 of 1974 may be, apply in relation to such warrant (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, 10 2 of 197" 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 duflicate in 15 the form of a memorandum, setting forth concisely the grounds of objection 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 20 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 pending the disposal of the appeal, unless the administrator otherwise directs i 25 (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 appelll undel' this sec'don, the time taken for obtaining a' certified copy of the 30 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 no' be called in question in any court except on the ground-(a) that the commissioner of police or the administrator, u 3s the case may be, had not followed the procedure laid down in subsection (1), sub-section (2) or sub-section (4) of section 50 or in section 51, as the case may be; or (0) that there was no material before the commissioner of police or the administrator, as the case may be, upon which he could 40 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, a8 the case may be, was not of the opinion that witnesses were unwilling to c:ome for- 4s ward to give evidence in p~blic against the person a,alnst whoa wch order haa been made j ' '-53 if a person to whom a direction has been issued under section u, ection 47 or section 48 to remove himself from delhi or any part thereof-(a) fails to remove himself as directed; or (b) having so removed' himself enters delhi or any part thereof within the period specified in the oreier, 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 niter removal the commissioner of police may cause him to be arrested and removed in police custody to such place outsid-e delhi or any part thereof as the 10 c-ommissioner 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 deihl is 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 impos-ed (2) the commissioner of police may at any time revoke any such 20 permission '~empo­rary per mmionto enter and conse quences of non· obser_ vallee of conditions of such permis_ sion (3) any person who with such permission returns to delhi or any part thereof shall observe the conditions imposed, and at the expiry of the tempjrary period for which he was permitted to return, or on the revocation of such permission before the expiry of such temporary 25 period, shall remov-e himself outside delhi or any part thereof, as the case may be, and shall not return thereto within the unexpired portion of the per~od 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 remov·e himself accordingly or having so removed himself enters 30 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 35 55 every person against whom an order has been made under section 46, section 47 or section 48 shall, if so required by the commissioner of police, allow his measurements and photograph to be taken by a police officer in the prescribed manner takin, measure· ments and photo_ graphs, etc, of perwns against whom an order under section 48, 47 or 48 is made res-ist_ nnee to the taking cli mea· suremf'!nt!l, etc - 56 (1) if any person as aforesaid when required to allow his 40 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  (2) resistance to or refusal to allow the taking of measurements or tpootographs under this act shall be deemed to be an offence wader section 186 of the indian penal code (3) where an lorder under sect!0n 46, section 47 or section 48 is set aside in appeal, all measurements and photographs (including negatives) taken under this section shall be destroyed or made over to the 5 person against whom such order is made banning of use lit dress, etc, re iilmbling uniform vf armed forces 57 (1) 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 10 pulice force or of any force constituted by or under any law fdr 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 or article of apparel by any member 'of such body or associatioon or is organisation (2) every general 'or special order under sub-section (1) shall be published in the manner prescribed for the publicatidn of a public notice under section 142 expla1l4tion-for the purposes of this section a dress or an article 20 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 nefence st~cieties 58 (1) it'or thl;! protection of persons, the security of property and the public safety in any locality the commissioner of police may constitute voluntary bodies (hpreafter in this section referred to al 25 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 undet" this ac't asqigned to them 30 (3) every officer or member of a defence society shall-(a) 'on appointment receive a certificate in such fgrm as may be specified or approved by the adminisltrator in this behalf; and (b) when called up for duty have the same powers, privileges and protection as are vested in a police officer appointed 3s 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 corporatlod 4') of delhi; or (b) any other local authority, b)' reason o,f the fact that he is a member or officer of such society  chapter vi executive duties and powers of police officers59 (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 5 thereunder and for that purpose such police officer may,-| duty       ||------------|| police     || officer to || enforce    || provisions || of         || the        || act       |(a) warn persons who from ignorance fail to comply with any pl'1ov'ision of this act or any rule, regulation or order made thereunder; (b) require any per80n acting or about to act contrm'y to any 10 provisdon of this act or rule regulation or order made thereunder, to desist from so doing; (e) subject to the provisions of sub-secfions (2) and (3), arrest nny person contravening any provi~ion of this act or any rule, regulation o~ order made thereunder, where such contravention is 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 oft'eonce punishable under thi!, act 20 (2) a police officer shal1 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 section 29, sub-sc'ction (1) or sub-section (2) of section 30, section 32, section 47, section 48 ('if sub-setion (1) of setion 57; 30 (e) commits in the presence of such police officer n,n offence punishable under section 97, sub-section (1) of section 108, clause (a), (b) or (c) of section 110 or sub-section (2) of section 113 in respect of ithe contravention of any order made under 1lection 33 or section 34; 35 (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 stlsppcted to h&ve committed an offence punishable under section 101, section 102 or clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 113; (i) commits in his presence in any street or public place any non·co,gnizable offence punishable under this aot or an'y- rule or regulation made thereunder jf such person-45 (i) after being warned by the police officer persists in committing such offence; or (ii) refuses to accompany the police offl~f"l' t~ " police station on bein~ required so to !:lo, , f'j & (3) the commissioner of police or any other police officer especiady empowered in this behalf by the commissioner of police may arrest wi·thout a warrant issued by a metrc'politan magistrate any person who has committed an offence punishable under section 92  60 it shall be the duty of every police officer- sother 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 best of his ability, to obtain intelligence concerning the commission of cognizable offences or designs to commit such 10 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 commission of cognizable and, within his view, of non-cogniza6le offences; (c) to prevent to the best of his abiuty the commission of public is nuisances; (d) to apprehend without unreasonable delay all persons whom he is legally authorised to apprehend and for whose appreliension there is' sufficient li'eason; (e) to aid any other police officer when called upon by such other 20 police ofticer 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 reasonable on the part of the offtcer aided; (f) to prevent the breach of the public peace; (9) to afford every assistance within his power to disabled or 2s helpless persons in the streets; (h) to take charge of intoxicated persons and of lunatics at large, 'w!lo appear dangerous or incapable of taking calfe 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 w1illst 30 guarding or conducting any such person to have due regard to lila condition; (;)  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 35 and the causing of unnecessary annoyance; (l) in dealing with women and children, to act with strict regard to decency and with reasonable gentleness: (m) to use his best endenvours to prevent any loss or aamage by h; ~ (n) to use his best ende:\vour~ to avert any accident or dan',er to the public;  (0) to regulate and control th~ trafftc in the streets, to prevent obatructions therein and to tbe best of his ability, to prevent the contravention of any n~le reg1l1atiot') or (it''dej' ml'jde under ~bis 4s , i act or any other law in force for observance by the public in or near the streets; 5 (p) to keep orcl~r 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; 10 (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 o·f any regulation 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    ||----------|| enter    || places   || of       || public   || resort  |61 subject to the provisions of this act and ithe rules, regulation&l and orders made thereunder, every police officer may, for the purpose of 15 dis::harging 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 reso!'t of loose and disorderly characters power to search suspected peraons in street, etc 2011974 20 52 when in a street or a place of public reso·rt a person is in possession or suspected to be in possession of any ar:ticle which a police ofticer in good faith suspects to be stolen property, such police officer may seall'ch such person and may require an account in relation to any article found in his possession and should the accqunt given by the possessor be mani-25 festly false or suspicious, may detain such article after giving to the possessor a receipt in the prescribed form and report the facts to a metropolitan magistrate who shall thereupon proceed according' to tbe provisions of sections 457 458 and 45p of the code of criminal procedure, 1973 83 (1) the administrator may, by notification in the official gazette, 30 declare any specified service to be an essential service to the community emergency duties of police (2) a declaration made under sub-section (j) 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 35 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 sul'erior police officer may himself performe duties imposed on a 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 40 subordinate to him, and in the case of any duty imposed on sucn subordinate, a superior may aid, supplement, supe-rsede, or prevent any action of such subordinate by his own action or that of any person lawfully acting under his command or authority, whenever the same shall appeall' necessary or expedient for giving more complete or convenient effect to the 45 law or for avoiding any ii1fringemept thereof ~ubordi­nate ()ft\cer· persons bound to ('omply with the reasonable directions or police olficer 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 (2) where any person resists, refuses or fails to comply with any direction referred to in sub-section (1), a police officer may, without pr~ 5 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, remo',e such person and either produce him before a metropolitan magistrate or, in trivial cases, release him when the occasion which necessitated the removal 10 has ceased to exist: provided that the person so removed shall in all cases be produced briore the metropolitan magilrtrate or rel~ased, as the case may be, within a period of twenty-four hours of such removal  chapter vii powers in relation to unclaimed property66 (1) it shall be the duty of every police officer to take temporm'y charge-(a) of all unclaimed property found by, or made over to, him; and (b) of all property found lying in any pub1ic street, if tlie owner police to take charge of uncla1m_ edpro_ perty or person in charge of such property, on being directed to remove the 20 same, refuses or fails to do so (2) the police officer taking charge of the property under sub-section (1) shall furnish an inveniory 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 25 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 au,thorises in this behalf and establiih his claim within six months from toe date of such proclamatlon procedure for dis posalof property taken ('hargeot :jnder aection 88 (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 30 of less than ·fifty rupees, it may 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 35 (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 establisli hi, claim, such officer shall forward the record of the proceedings he'fore him with his findings thereon to the commissioner of police 40 delivery of pro perty to perscm· ~ntl~le(l 68 (1) the commissioner of police on being satisfied of the title ot any claimant to the possession or administra,tion 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 fne expense! incurred by the delhi police in the seizurf> ~~o detention thereof (2) the commissioner of police may, at his discretion, before making any order under sub-section (1), take such security as he may think proper from the person to whom the said property is to be delivered and nothing hereinbefore con4;$led shall affect the right of any person to 5 recover the whole or any part of the same from the !>'erson 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 specified 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 10 by auction under the orders of the commissioner of police and tfie proceeds thereof shall be credited to the government in default of claim pl'operty to be at disposhl oigovernment ment (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 is administrator shall pay to the claimant the amount determined in tha~ behalf by the prescribed authority (3) the form and manner in which claims may be made under subsection (2) and the procedull"e for dealing with such claims and all otlier matters connected therewith shall be such as may be prescribed  20 chapter viii ~pecial provisions relating to exercise of powers under the oode of criminal procedurf, 197370 (1) the central government may, by notification in the official gazette and subject to such conditions and limitations as may be sped· 25 fied therein empowerlor 18'74 (a) the commissioner of police to exercise and perform in relation 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 muy be specified in the notification; 3s (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 commis_ sioner of police and ct'rtain other officers to exercise powers of dietrict magis tratesand executive magistrates under the code of criminal froce dure 1973 (2) every officer subordinate to the commissioner of police shall, in the t:xercise and performance of any powers and duties which he is empowered to exercise or pedorm under sub-section (l), be suhject to 40 the general control of the commissioner of police in the same manner and to the same extent as an executive magistrate appointed under soodon 20 of the said code would be subject to the general control of the district magistrate appointed under tbat 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 45 duties which he is empowered to exercise 9nd perform under sub-section (1), to the general control of the district magistrate appointed under section 20 of the said code (4~ the provisions oif this section shall have effect notwithstanding 811ythiuj{ contained in the said code notification under ~ection 70 to be laid before parliament 11 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 comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the 5 successive sessions aforesaid, both houses agree in making any modification 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 10 the validity of anything previously done under that notification 72 (1) the notification of the government of india in the ministry of home affairs no so 224(e), dated the 30th march, 1974, under section 478 of the code 01 criminal procedure, 1973, shall cease to have efted and accordingly references to a jucial magistrate of the first 15 class in ~ections 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 (1) of the notification referred to therein shall, upon such 20 cesser of operation, stand transferred to the metropolitan magistrate who would have jurisdiction if such proceedings had been instituted after such cesser of operation eeferen_ ces to judicial magis_ trate of the first class in ::;ections 11l8, 109 and 110 c,f the code of criminal procedure, 1973 not to be construed as refe_ rences to an executive (3) subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), the provisions of section 6 of the general clauses act, 1897 shall apply to the cesser of 25 ~o of 18"' operation of the notification referred to in sub-section (1) as if such cesser of operation of the notification were a repeal of an enactment by a central act m~is­trate  chapter ix special powers und~:r the prevention of cruelty to anim,\ls act, 1960 30powers with regard to offences underact ii of 1960 73 (1) when in respect of an' animal an offence punishable under subsection (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 oftlcer may-3s (a) take the animal to the metropolitan magistrate, or (b) if the accused person so requires, take the animal to a vet(;-rinary ofticer specified by general or special order by the administrator in this behalf: provided that the police officer may, instead of taking the animal 40 to a veterdnary officer, take the animal for detention in a dispensary, or in any suitable place approved by the administrator by general 'jr 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 45 of the said act for treatment and detention therein, pending direction 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 n!port of' the condition of the animal in the preseftol!' of :~o or more!11'eiipcctable persons ~iblng such wound, sores, fractan'es, bruises, or other marks ot injury as may be found on the body 'of the animal: s 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 metr&)tolttan magistrate (2) where an animal is detained in a dispensary, infirmary or othel 10 place under sub-section (1), the animal shall be produce<i before, a 1'4etropolitan magistrate with the least possible delay and in any case witbin a period not exceeding three days from the date on which it was so detained 74 when the animal is brought before a metropolitan magistrate is 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 himself 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 20 there as provided in section 35 of the prevention qf cruelty to animals 19 or 196q act, 1960 or may make such order as he thinks fit regarding the disposal or custody or production of the animal 75 the veterinary officer before whom an animal is brought under section 73 shall with all convenient speed examine the same and draw up 25 a report of such examination and a copy of the report of such examination shall be delivered free of charge to the accused person if he applies for it powers ot metropolitan magis trate to return animal to person from whose possession it was token veterinary officer to ejl;amine the animal 7,6, when under section 73, a police officer takes an animal for detentioij in a dispensary or infirmary or other place before its production 30 bebe a metropolitan magistrate or a metropolitan magistrate curects hs ,further detention in an infirmary, sub-sections (3) to (7) (both inclu-animal to be dealt with underact 59 of 1960 sive~ of ,section 35 of the prevention of cruelty to arimals act" 1960 shall, as far as may be, apply in relation to the detention of the anij;qal (including the cost of transport, maintenance and treatment of the 35 animal) in the dispensary, infirmary or other place power of police officer to unsaddle animal or to unload it '17 when a police officer in good faith suspects that any animal being employed in any work or labour is, by reason of any sote, unfit to be so employed, he may require the person in charge ,ofi such animal to unsaddle or unload it for the purpose of ascertaining whether any sore 40 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 magisuate, any pel'elon committing in his presence any oftence punishable 46 under clauses (4) to (m) (both inclusive) of sud-6ection (1) of section 11 o~ the prevention of cruelty to animals act, 1960 arrest without warra\1t in case of certain offences under act 59 of 1960 71 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 clulpter to be in alidition to 1hepro visions of act 59 of 1960  chapi'er x oi'fences and punishments80 no person shall-(a) when driving a vehicle along a street (except in cases of actual necessity or of some other sufficient reason for deviation) fail n:ue garding the rules 01 the road to keep on the lett side of sueh street and when passing any other vehicle proceeding in the same direction fail to keep on the right 10 side of such vehicle; or (b) leave in any street or public place insufficiently tended or secured any animal or vehicle 81 no person shall cause obstruction, damage, injury, danger, alarm or mischief in any street or public place-is (i) by misbehaviour, negligence or ill-usage in the driving, management, treatment or care of any animal or vehicle; or causing obt,truc tion or milchid 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 20 expolln, animal for hire, lale, te 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 2s when as a result ot any accident repairing on the spot is unavoidable) repair any vehicle or part of a vehicle, or 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- 30 causin' any obstruction in a streel (a) by allowing any animal or vehicle, which has to lie loaded or unloaded, or take up or set down passengers, to remain or stand in the street or the public place longer than may be necessary for such purposej or (b) by leaving any vehicle standing or fastening any cattle in 35 the street or the public 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 whatsoever in or upon a street for an unreasonable length of time or eon· 40 trary to any regulation; or (e) by exposing anything £or sale or setting out anything for we in or upon any stall, booth, board, cask, b'uket or in any other way whatsoever obgtrilcs in, a footway it no person shan drive, ride, load, propel or leave oii any footway any animal or vehicle other than a perambulator or fasten any animal tn 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 5 commissioner of police,-(a) exhibit any mimetic, mus:cal or other performances of such a nature as may attract crowds; or cauemg cbstruc tian and anno--yance by pcl"lof_ (b) carry or place bulky advertisements, pictures, figures emblems in any street or public place or mancl's, ctc 10 whereby any obstructton 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, or bathe or wash his ,person in or near to and within sight of a stree+ or public place, except at a place set apart for the purpose, so as to cause 15 annoyance to the neighbouring residents or to passers-by iioing cftcmlve acts in or near a stre(t 01' 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 letling lc('se horse, etc, and i:uffer_ i(lg fero-(b) suffer a ferocious dog to be at large without a muzzle; or (;ijus dois to be at large (c) set on or urge a dog or other animal to attack, worry or put in fear any person or horse or other animal batmrg 1)1' wash-~ng in places d(lt let apartftjr 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 competent authority, or in, or by the side of, any pond, pool, aqueduct, part 25 of a river, stream, nullah or other source or means of water supply in which such bathing or washing is forbidden by order q£ the competent authority ~hose purpllfes defilin, water in public wells, etc 89 no person shall defile or cause to be defiled the water in any place set apart for the purpose by the order of the competent authority 30 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 bathera 90 no person shall obstruct or incommode a person bathing at a place set apal1t; for the purpose by the order of the competent authority 35 under section 88 by wilful intrusion or by using such place for any purpose for which it is not so set apart behaving indecentl, in public 91 no person shall wilfully and indecently expose his person in any street or public place or place of public 'resort or within sight of, and in such manner as to be seen from, any street or public place or place 40 of public resort, whether from within any house or bullding or not, or use indecent language or behave indecently or riotously or in a dfsorderly manner in a street or public place or place of public resort or in ~ny office, police station or station house , p~, ,no person shall wilfully 'p~,press, hustle or: ~bst~ct aqy pas ~ri~ a street or, public place or by viplent ljloy~en~f ffienac;tng g~tures, wanton penlonal annoyan~e, ~reilmi,ng, ~outing, ~y frightening horses or cattle or otherwise, disturb the p:ubhc peace or order s obstruet ing or annoying pa3sen gers in the street 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 t~e peace or whereby a breach of the peace may be occasioned mlsbehaviourwith ftttent to provoke a breach of the peace 94 no person shall fiy a kite or any other thing 9:> as to cause danger, injury or alarm to persons, animals or property 10 prohibition against flying kites, etc 95 no p'erson shall in or near to any street, public place or place of pu blic resort-(a) commit a nuisance by easing himself; or committinl nuisance in or near street, etc (b) having the care or custody of any child under seven years of age, suffer such chud to commit a nuisance 86 afore~aid; or is (c) spit or throw any dust, ashes, refuse or rubbish 80 as to cause annoyance to any passer-by disregard of notice in public bullding 96 no person shall, in any court, police station, police office or building occupied by government or building occupied by any local body,  moke, or spit in contravention of a notice, by the competent authority 20 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 25 fine, with imprisonment for a term not exceeding eight days penal· ties fol: offences udder sections 80 to 96 88(1) whoever allows any cattle which are his property :or in his charge to stray in any street or to trespass upon any pubuc or  private property shall on conviction be punished-(a) for the first offence, with ,imprisonment for a teru'f' which 30 may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to three huildreci rup~, or with both; arid -penalty for failure to keep in ;conftne-'ment cattir, etc (b) for the second or subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which may· extend to six months~ or with fine whim may ex-!tend to ftve hundred rupees,or with both 35 (2) the metropolitan magistrate trying an offenceunderl;lub-section (l) may order-" , ,  , , (4) that: tile accused shall ,pay such ,compens,,tiqil- ~ot"ex~na two hundred and fifty rupe~l!,as such magisfate ~~s,rei:sonable to any person for any damage pl'pved to ha~e been caused to his pro-,~ or the produce of ills l~nd by t~ ~ttle lmder ¢he control of the accused trespassing on his land; and (b) that the cattle in respect of which the offence has been corn-s rnitta!d shall be forfeited to the government (3) any compensation awarded under sub-section (z) may be :recovered as if it were r  fine imposed under this section (4) it shall be the duty of every police officer and ilt shall be lawful for any other person to seize and take to any cattle pound for confine-10 ment therein any cattle found straying in any street or trespassing upon any pri~ or public property (5) any fine imposed under this section may, without prejlldice to any otbelr'means of recovery provided by law, be recovered by sale of all or any of the cattje in respeci of which the offence wb$ committed, is wh~her they are the property of the person convicted of the offen~~ or were only in his charge when the offence was committed (6) notwithstanding anything contajined in the cqde of criminal procedure, 1973, the or:e'1ce punishable under this section shall be cognizable 2 of 1974 funlshment for cruelty to animals 99 whoever in any place cruelly beats, goads, overworks, ill-treats or 20 tortures or causes, or procures to be cruelly beaten, goaded, overworked, :ill-treated or tortured, any animal £hall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment which may extend to one month, or wlith filne which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both wilful trespass 100 whoever without satisfactory excuse wilfully enters or remains 2s in or upon any dwelling-house or premises or land or ground attached thereto, or on any ground, bullding, monument or structure belonging to government or used for public purposes, or on any vehicle, shall, on convfrction, whether he causes any adual damage or not, be punished w~th imprisonment which may extend to seve'n days or with fine which/ may 30 extend to one hundred rupees, or wli1h both false alarm of fire or damage to fire alarm  101 whoever knowingly gives or causes to be! gll\ted a false alarmj of fire to the fire brigade of the' government or the corporation ora municipality or to any officer or fireman thereof, whether by means of a street fire alarm, statement, message or otherwise, or with in~t- to give 35 j;ucq false alann wilfully breaks the glass of, or otherwise damages, a  stre;et flre alann, shall, on conviction, be' pllnished wilth 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-40 (a) anned with any dnngerous instrument with intent to commit an offence; or (b) having his face covered, or othenvie disguised with intent to commit an offence; or (c) in any dwelling-house or other building, or on ~y vehicle, without ~in8 ablesa;tieiactprjly to accoullt for his presenc~ the~; or 45 being found under suspicious circums-tances between sunset and bunrise (d) lying or loitering in any street, yard or other place, being ii 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 implen\eilt of s house breaking, shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonmeut for a term which may extend to three months 103 whoever has in his possession or conveys in any manner, or offers for sale or pawn, anything which there is rea60n to believe is stolen 10 property or property fraudulently obtained, shall, if he fails to account for such possession or act to the satisfaction of the mettrop(llitan 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 hundred rupees, or with both is possession of property of which no satisfactory accouht can be given 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 9ilch a person, and having received from a police officer written or printed information in relation to any propeqty suspected to have been transferred by any offence roenllioned in section 410 of the indian 20 pella} code or by any offence punishable under section 417, &ection 418, 45 of 1860 section 419 or section 420 ()f the said code, is found in possession, or, after omission by pawnbrokers, etc, to report to police possession or tender of property suspected to be atolen ~he receipt of such infonnation, comes into possession ~ has an offer, either by way of sale, pawn, exchange, or for cu8'tody, alteration or other-wise howsoever, made to him, of proper,ty answering the description con- 2s tamed in such information, shall, unless-(i) he forthwith gives information to the commissioner of poilice, or at a police !tation of such possession or offers and takes all reasonable means to ascertain and to give information as aforesaid of the name and address of the person from' whom the p06se3- 30 sion or offer was received, or (ii) the property, being an article of common wearing aljpare1 or otherwise, is incapable of identification from the written or printed information given and has been in po way concealed after the receipt oj such information 35 011 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  105 whoever havj,ng received such information as is referred to in section 104 alters, melts, defaces or puts away or causes or suffers to be 40 mellinl, etc, of pro~ referred to in secuod 104 alter~ melted, defaced or put away, without the previolls permission of the police, any such property as is referred to in that section ehall" on proof that the same was stolen property within i the meaning of section 410 of the indian penal code or propetrty in respect of which any offence 45 of 11180 purushable under section 417, section 418, section 419 o~ section 420 of 4s ,ne said code has been committed, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or w:lth fine, or with both twna pledle from child 186 whoever takes from any child, not appearing to be above the age of fourteen years, any ,"icle whatsoever as a pawn, pledge or security for any sum of money lent, advanced or delivered to such child or without the knowledge and consentt; of the owner of !the article buys from such s 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 gamblng whatsoever, in such place, 10 ahall on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees suffering disorderly conduct at places of public amusement, etc cheatin, at lames and ,ambling in street 108 (1) whoever by any fraud or unlawful device or malpractice in 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 15 wagering on the event of any game, sports, pastime or exercise, win, from any other person, for himseu or any other or others, any sum of money or valuable thing, shall be deemed to have committed the offence - of 1860 of cheating within the meaning of section 415 of the indian penal code, and be liable to punishment accordingly 20 (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 released after a due admonition 109 whoever contravenes, disobeys, opposes, or fails to conform to 25 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'disobedience to order under section 27   \,  :t- 110 save as provided in section 112, whoever contravenes, or abets the 30 contravention of, any regulation made under section 28 or any of the conditions of a licence issued under such regulation shall, on conviction, he punished-penalty for contravenin, regulations, ctc, under section 28 (a) if the regulation was made under clause (b) of sub-6ection (1) of section 28 providing for the prohibition of the sale, or ex-3s posure for sale, of any goods on any street or portion thereof so as to cause obstruction to traffic or mnconvenience 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 both, and 40 (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) of clause (8) or clause (v) of sub-section 45 (1) of section 28, with irnprisonmen~ for a term which may extend to eight days, or with fine which may extend to fifty rupees or with both; (e) :if the regulation was made under 'clause (0) or (p)of,b-metlon (1) of section 28, with fine whicll may extend to two bund  red rupe~; and (d) if the te~on was made under any clause of wb-section (1) of section 28 and for the contra:vention of which no penalty is s provided under clause (a), (b) or (c) of t!iis section, with ftne which may extend to fifty rupees 111 the holder of a licence granted under i this act in respect of a place of public amusement or public entertainm~ shall be responsib1e, 8s well as the actual offender for any offence under section 110 committed 10 by his servant or other agent acting with his express or itnplied perinismon on his behalf as jf he hjm~elf had commitlted the same, unless! he establishes that all due and reasonable precautions were taken by him to pl'event the commission of 9uch offence ' liability of lieencee of place of public amuse_ medtol' entertainment for acts of servants 11z (1) whoever fails to obtain a licence under thi~ act in tlespecl is of a place of public entertainmen't or a certificate of registration thereunder in respect of any eating house, or to renew the licence or the certificate, as the case may be, within the prescribed period shau, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees (2) any court trying any such offence shall in addition direet that 20 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 regiguation or fresh certificate of registration, as the case may be, in respect thereof and thereupon su<'h person shall forthwith comply with 25 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 extend to one month or with fine which may ex~end to two hundred rupees 01' with both 30  pebalty for not obtaining licence in respect of place of public entertainment or certlftcate of registration in respect of eatinl house or for hot renewing such ueence or certificate within prescribed 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 oftleer, be reasonably 3s necessary for seeming compliance with the court's direction 113 (1) whoever contravenes, disobeys, opposes or faus to conform to any order given by police officer under section 29 shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees penalties for contravention of orders, etc, under sections 29, 3{), 31, 32,33 and 16 (2) whoever contravenes a notification or an order made under sec- 40 tion 30, section 32, section 33 or section 34 or abets the contravention thereof shall, on conviction be punished-(ei) if the said notification or order was made under sub-section (1) of section 30 or under section 33 or section 34 with i~prilon   i ment 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 su1hcient reasons to be mentioned in the judgment, impose a sentence of imprison-s 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 8ub~section (3~ of 10 section 30, with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees; or (d) if the said order was made under section 32,with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three month&, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both (3) whoever' !opposes or fails to conform to any direction given by a is police officer under section 31, shall, on conviction, be punished with the which may extend to two hundred rupees 114 whoever contravenes, or abets the contravention of, any regulation, nc)tice or order made under section 35, sectd<m 36 or section 37 shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment which ~y extend 20 to three months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, or with both penalty for coptra ventioo of re,vja· tiona,etc made ur,der sectioll8 35, 36 and 37 penalty for con travention of directions under· section 46, 47 or 48 penalty for entering with out permission area from which a personia directed to reanov himse-if or overstaying when pet mitted tg return temporarily 115 whoever opposes or fails to conform to any direction issued under section 46, section 47 or section 48 or abets ine opposition to, or the failure to conform to, any such dire:::tion shall, on conviction, be punished 25 with imprisonment which shall not be less than four months but which may extend to one year and shall also be liable to fine: provided tha:t 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 30 11ft 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 permissic;m to 35 delhi, or any part thereof, as the case may be, from which he" was directed to remove himself; or (b) enters qr returns to delhi or any part thereof with permjssion granted under sub-section (1) of section 54, but fails, cojd-trary to the provisions thereof, to remove himself outside suc,h ~ea 40 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 of on revocation of the permission, enters or returns thereafter, without fresh permission, 45 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 m£'ntioned in the judgment, impose a sentence of imprisonment for a 50 term of less than six months i17 whoever contravenes any order made wider sectjons7 shall; oh conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both penalty for contravention of orders under section 57 118 whoever opposes or fails forthwith to c()lllply with any reasona· ble requisition made by a police oftlcer under clause (b) of sub-section 5 (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: provided that the court may, for adequate and special reasons to be 10 mentioned in the judgment, impose a sentence of imprisonment for a term of less than four months 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 15 which may extend to fifty rupees penalty for opposing or not eomplying with direction giverl under clause (b) of subsection (1) of section 59 penalty for eontravening directlobs under section 65 dan,erol111 performances 120 ,(1) no person shall without the previous permission of the commissioner 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 20 durina 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 oontravenes or attempts to contravene the provisions '15 of su~section (1), he shlll, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine, or with both (8) notwithstanding anything contained in the code of criminal procedure, 1973, thq offence punishabje unde:rthis section shall be coglliza~ 2 of 1974 ble 30 n~lect or refusal to serve  special police officer 121 any person, who having been appointed ito be a special pqlice 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 35 rupees lzz (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 (b) any police officer who-(i) is guilty of cowardice, or penalty for making 18l1e statement, etc, and tor misconduct of police of!lcer • (<<t) being a police officer of subordinate rank, resigns his office or withdraws himself from duties thereof in contravention of section 25, or (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 observe or obey, or i (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 tenn which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or ,,"tth both ~zanation-a police officer who being absent on leave fails without 10 reasonable cause to report himself for duty on the expiration of such leave shall, for the purpose of sub-clause (it;) of clause (b), be deemed to withdraw himself from the duties of his office within the meaning of eection 25 1%3 any police officer, who wilfully neglects or refuses to deliver up 15 his certificate of appointment or of office or any other article, in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 26 shall, on conviction, 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 for failure t) deliver up certl deate of appoint meat or other article 20 124 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, searrh, arrest etc, by pollee officer (b) vexatiously and unnecessarily seizes the property o~ any 25 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 30 (e) holds out any threat or promise not warranted by law, penalty forvep-lious del, in forwardini a perron ~rte151~ shall, for every such offence, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment 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 35 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 extend to six months, or with fine whic~ mar e~tmd to five hundred rupees, orwjtb both, p6 if any persbn not being a member of the delhi police wears, penalty for un_ authori!>ed use uf police unifcrdls w~tbout 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, be shall, on conviction, be punished with fine - which may extend to two hundred, rupees 10 lz1 (j) the commi9sioner of police may, by notification in the omcial gazette, make regulations to provide that no person, other thad a member of the armed forces of the union acting as such or a pouee olf\cer, shall go armed with any sword, spear, bludgeon, gun or other offensive weapon or with any expl06ive or corrosive substance in oy power to make regulatiolls regarding carrying weapons without authorlty s~eet or public place unless so authorised by such authority as may be speci,1ied in such regulations (2) any regulation made under sub-secti'on (1) may provide that any person who goes armed in contravention of such regulation shall is be liable to be disarmed by any police officer and the weapon or sub· stance so seized shall be f<>rfeited to the government, unless redeemed within two months by payment of such fine, not exceeding five hundred rupees, as the commissioner of police imposes 20 128 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, section 119 or section 121 when such offence has not occasioned serious mischief and has been promptly desisted from on a warning being given 25 i'rosecu tion for certain offences against this act to de in the dillcretien of delhi police summary tji'lj)o~al of i"ertam c3ses 30 1z9 {1) a eourt taking cognizance of an offence punishable under section 97, or und'er 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 gui1ty to the charge by registered letter and remit to the coun buch sum not exceeding one hundred rupees in the case of an offence punishable 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 epecified in the summons, under sub-section (1), no further proceedings 35 in respect of the offence shall be taken against him frosecu_ tion for offences menta not affected ih subject to the provisions contained in section 300 of the code of cririlfbal procedure, 19'73, nothing in this act shall be eon~trne~ topl'e-2 au", vent any person from being prosecuted and punished under any other law for anything made punishable by this act or from being prosecuted 40 ailcl, p~ under this act for anything made punishable under by other law offences by ccjln pa'~" 131 (l) 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 w~s$relpql1sible to, the co~· 4~ the conduct of the business of the oompany, as well as the company~ thall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly: 5 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) notwithstandiug anything contained in sub-section (1), where 10 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 ofrcer of the company, such director, manager, secretary or other i~ oftlcer shall also be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly ezplanation-f'or the purposes of this section,-(a) "company" means a body corporate, and includes a firm or other association of individuals; and 20 <b> "director", in relation to a firm, means a partner in the firm  chapter xi· miscellaneousdisposal of fees, rewards, etc 132 an fees paid for licences or pennissions granted under this act, 25 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 ofrcers as informers slum, save in so far as any such fees or sums belong under the provisions of any ehactment for the tiine being in force to any local authority be credited to the government: 30 provided that with the sanction of the administrator or under any rule made by the administrator in that behalf, the whole or any partion of any such reward, forfeiture or penalty may fot special services, be paid to a police ofrcer or be divided amongst two or more ~lice officers method of providi orders and notifieationa 133 any order or notification published or issued by the adminis-3s trator or by the commissioner of police or any other police officer under any provision of this act, and the due publicaltion 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 administrator or commissioner of police or other police officer, as the case may be, and by him certified 4;) to be a true copy of an original published or issued according to the pl'q-visio~~ of this act applicable thereto 1m no rule, regulation, order, direction, adjudication, inquiry or notification made or published and no act done under any provision of 'this act w any rule or regulation made under this act, or in substantial conformity with the same, shall be deemed illegal, void, invalid s or insufticient by reason of any defect of form or any irregularity of procedure rules, tions or orders not invalidated by defect of form or irregularity in procedure presumption in prosecu tions for 135 notwithsta~ding anything contained in any law for the time being 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 1') 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 competent under this act to make it; con~rl:lven­tion of order made wlder section 46,47 or 48 (b) that the authority making the order was satisfied that the j 5 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 oftlcers holding ("harges ot, or suc ceeding to, vacancies competent to exercise pow  136 whenever in consequence of the office of the commissioner· of police, additional commissioner of police or any other police officer be- 20 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 2 respectively conferred and imposed by or under this act on the 5 commissioner of police or on such additional commfssioner of poli<:e or other police officer, as the case may be· forfeiture of bond entered into by 137 if any person permitted to enter or return to the ar'ea from which he was directed to remove himself under sub-section (l) of section 54, 30 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 p~rson under subrec-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 ~ood faith in pursuance of or 3s purported to be done in purs'lance of any duty impos~ny authority conferred on him by any provision t()f this act or any other law for the tirne being in forc~ 9r an¥ tule, re~ulation, order or ~irection mad, or gfv~n ~,reunder~ no police officer to be liable to penaltyor damage for nct done in lood faith in put5lla:e tdcmir , ,~  189( 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 s administrator or by a person empowered in that behalf under this act; 01" (b) any rule or regulation made under it his act 45 of 1- explanation-in this section, the expression "public servant" has the meaning assigned to it in section 21 of the indian penal code | no          | {:iubllc    ||-------------|-------------|| servant     |             || liable      |             || as          |             || aforesaid   |             || for         |             || givin&      |             || effect      |             || in          |             || good        |             || faith       |             || to          |             || any         | rule,       || regulation, |             || order       | or          || direction   |             || issued      |             || with        |             || ap_         |             || parent      |             || authority  |             || bar         |             || to          |             || suits       | and         || prosecll"   |             || tiona      |             |10 140 (1) in any case of alleged offence by a police officer or other person, 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-15 ter aforesaid, the prosecution or suit shall not be entertained and if entertained shail 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 p;olice officer or other person may be entertained by the court, if instituted with the previous 20 sanction of the administrator, within one year f:rom the date of the offence 1 -(2) in the case of an intended suit on account ot such a wrong all 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 desl5 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 aforesaid has been served on the ,defendant and the date of such service and shall state what tender of amends, if any, has been made by the defendant and a copy 30 0if the said notice shall be annexed to the plain,t endorsed or accom, panie<i with a declaration by the plaintiff of the time and manner of service thereof 141 (1) any licence or written permission granted under the provisions of /this act sh&ll specify the period and locality for which, and the conditions and restrictions subject to which, the same is granted, and 35 ishall lbe given under the signature of the competent authority licer,,!es lind written permissions to specify condiuons etc, and to be signed (2) any licence or written fermission granted under this act may at any tame be suspended or revoked by the competent authorirty if any of its condiltions or restrictions are infringed or evaded by the person to whom it has been granted, or if such person, is convicted of any offence to with respect to any matter to which such licence or permission relates (3) when any such licence or written permission is suspended or revoked, 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 ~c~, ~ ~ to j;)e w)tho~~ a licence or wrt~ten petmissipn, until th' q~ for suspendilli or revoking the same is canceqed, or ~til the ame 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 reasonable s lffies, produce the same, if so required by a police officer explanatipn-for tile purposes of this section any such iniringeme~t or evasion by, or convictiqn of, a servant or other agent acting on behalf of the person to whom the licence or written permission has been granted shall be deemed to be infringement or evasion or, as the case may be, 10 conviction of, the person to whom such licence or written permission has been granted public notice hovr to be liven 142 any noltification which may be publicly promulgated, public notice required to be given, order required to :be notified puolicly or pro(:lamatjon requir~ to be issued under any of the provisioll3 of this act 15 shall be in wrltlog, under the slgnature ot a competent authority and shall 'be published in the locality to be affected thereby, by affixing copies thereof iii conspicuous public places, or by proclaiming the same! with beat of drums or by actvertising, the same in such local newspapers in hindi, urdu or engjish, as the competent authority may deem nt, or by 20 any two or mqre of these means and by any other means it may thinki suitable 143 whenever under this act, the doing or the omitting to do any-~hing or the validity of anything depends upon the consent, approval, declarad~n, opinion or satisfactlon of tht: competent authority, a written 2s docwnent signed by the competent authority, purporting to conveyor set forth such consent approval, declaration, opmion or satisfaction shall be sulftcient evidence thereof con&ent, etc, of a competent authority maybe proved by writmi under its si{lgature signature on notices, etc,msy be itamped 144 every licence, written permission, notice or other document, not being a summons or warrant or search warrant, required by this act 30 or by any rule or regulation made thereunder, to bear the signature o~ the commission81'! of pcilice, shall be deemed to be properly signed if it bears a facsimile of his signature stamped thereon  persons interested maybeek to ar!rlul, reverq or alter any rule (,if clrdtn' 1~ (1) in the case of any rule or order made by the adminiatratqr under an authority conferred ·by this act and requiring the public ot a parrt4icular class of persons to perform some duty or act, or to conduct 35 or order themselves or those under their control lin a manner therein ideecribed, i~ shall be competent for any person interested to apply to! the administrator by a memorial to annul, reverse, or alter ~ rule or order aforesaid on the ground of its being unlawful, oppressive or unrea- 40 sonable '  (2) after such an application as aforesaid and the rejectiqil thereof, wholly or in part or atter the lapse of four months without an answer to such application or a decision thereon published by the administr~t~, it shall be competent for the person interested and deeming the rule or 45 order to be contrary to law to institute a suit in the princip'al civil eourt of original jurisdiction against the administrator for a declaration that the rule or order is udlawful either wholly or in part i - , i (3) where in any sua 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 (j) the commissioner of police shall exet'lcise all powers and 5 discharged all functions which may be exercised or discharged ;by a dill· trict magistrate under the acts mentiolned in schedule i including the rules made thereunder  power  ot commis !iioner of poijl'e under other acta (2) the commissioner of police may authorise any additional commissioner of police, deputy commissioner of police or additional deputy p(;,wer to make rulp:i' 10 commissioner of police to exercise any of the powers or discharge any of the functions of the commissioner of police mentioned in sub-section (1) in accordance with the general or spec:al orders of the administrator (3) the powers and functions of a district magistrate under the sarais act, 1867, shall be exercised and discharged by the administrator [5 or such officer as the administrator may, by notification in the officlll 22 of 1867 gazette, authorise in this behalf 147 (1) the administrator may make rules for carrying out the purposes of this act (2) in particular and without prejudice to the generality of the fore-20 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 conditions of service of the members ::>f, the delhi police under clause (b) of section 5; 25 (b) the manner of publication, under sub-section (2) of section 17, by the commissioner of police, of the names of special police officers appointed under that section; (e) awarding of any of the punishments referred to in sub-sec· tion (1) or sub-section (2) of sectio,n 2'1 to any police officer or sub-30 ordinate rank; (d) procedure for awarding punishments under section 22; (e) form of discharge certificate under: sub-section (8) of section 25; (f) determination of the cost of employing additional police under sub·section (2) of section 38; 35 (g) manner of ':aking measuremen',s and photograph under section 55 of persons against whom an order has been made under section 46, section 47 or section 48; 40 45 (h) manner of constituting defence societies under sub-section (1) 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 establishe\l under sub-section (2) of section 69 and the form and manner in which claims may be made under that sub-section, the procedure  fpr dealing with such claims and all other matters connected therewith under sub-section (3) of that section; (k) payment to ~ny police officer or division among two or more police officers the whole or aoy portion of any reward, forfeiture or penalty, under the proviso to section 132; 50 0) any other matter which has to be, or may be, prescribed, or provided for by rules, under this act 148 (1) every rule and regulation made under this act shall be made by notification in the official gazette notification of rules and regulations in the official gazette and laying of irules and regulations  (2) every rule and regulation made under this ordinance shall be 5 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 comprised in one session or in two or more successive see1ons, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both houses agree in making any modiflcation in 10 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 regullwtion 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 is that rule or regulation (3) every rule and regulation made under this act shall also be laid before the metropolitan council of delhi 141 (1) on the commencement of this act the enactments specified in schedule ii shall cease to be in force in delhi; 20 provided that-cesser of operation of certain enactments and savings (i) all rules and standing orders made (including !he punjab police rules, as in force in delhi), appointments made, powers conferred, orders made or passed, directions and certificates issued; consent, permit, permission or licence given, summons or warrants 25 issued or served, persons arrested or detained: or disoharged on bail or bond, search warrants issued, bonds forfeited and penalties incurred under any such enactment shall, in so far as they are consistent with this act, be deemed to have been respectively made, conferred, passed, given, issued, served, arrested, detained, dilcharged, 30 furieited or incurred under this act (ii) all references in any enactment to any of the provisions of the enactments so ceasing to be in force shall, in relation to delhi, be construed as references to the coi'tesponding provisions qf this act 35 (2)1 the cesser of operation under sub-section (1) 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 th«eunder before the commencement of this act; 40 (b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability already acqujred, accrued or incurred the~el1nder before such 'commencernen~; (c) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred or inftictec:l in reapect of any act thereunder before such commencement; (4) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in iespect 45 of such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment; or (e) any legal proceeding thereunder pending in any ccjl11't or before any oftlcer immediately before such commencement or anything done or suffered, to be done in the course of such proceedmga, 50' 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 5 150 without prejudice to the provisions contained in section 149,-10 police force functioning in delhiim_ mediately tefore the cummcnce_ ment of this act to be (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 1111, immediately before such commencement, shall be deemed to be appointed, on such commencement, to the office mentioned in the corresponding entry in column (2) of that schedule; 15 df'em~d to be polico: force '!onstitut ~d i:nder this act 20 (b) all proceedings (including proceedings by way of investigations) pending before any police officer of the existing poece force, immediately before the commencement of this act shall on $1ch commencement be deemed to be proceedings pending before him in his capacity as the holder of the office to which be 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 25 has been conferred on the commissioner of police 01' 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 iuch conferment before the district magistrate, or the executive magistrate, as the case 30 may be, shall, on the conferment of such power or function on the commillioller oil police or other police ofticer stand transferred to the commissioner of police or other police officer, as the case may be, and the officer to whom such proceedings stand so transferred shall either proceed de novo or from the stage of such trans-35 fer power to remcy'e diffil'ul~ tiell 151 (1) if any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this act in consequence of the transition to the said provisions from the provisions ot the enactments mentioned in schedule ii, the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, make 40 such provisions  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 45 may be after it is issued, be laid before each house of parliament ord 2 of 1978 152 (1) the delhi police ordinance, 1978 is hereby repealed repeal and (2) notwithstanding such a repeal, anything done or any action saving taken under the ordinance so repealed shall be deemed to have beed clone or taken under the corresponding provisions of this act  schedule i part i central acts5 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 disaffeclon) act, 1922 6 the cinematograph act, 1952 10 7 the suppression of immoral traffic in women and girls act, 1956 8 the arms act, 1959 9 'nlie prevention of cruelty to animals act, 198q  part ii delhi acts and acts extended to delhi15 1 the madras restriction of habitual offenders act, 1948, as ill force in delhi 2 the pl,mjab 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 20 5 the bombay prevf!ntion of begging act, 1959, as in force in delhi  schedule ii (su section 149)shon title "year ne v the police act, 1861 25 iv !,;ection 40 of the punjab laws act, 1872, as in force in delhi 195 1 xxil the provisions of the bombay police act, 1951, as id force in delhi (see section 150) 5 designation of officer in the delhi police posts to which the officers of the delhi police shall be deemed to be appointed -------------------__  _  __--  _ __  __ - i inspector general of police commissioner of police 2 deputy inspector general of police additional commissioner of police 3 superintendent of police deputy commissioner of police 10 4 assistant inspector general of police deputy commissioner of police s additional superintendent of police additional deputy commissioner of police 6 assistant superintendent of police assistant commissioner of police 7 deputy superintendent of police assistant commissioner 0 f po ike ______________________ 0--- -__  --_-  _ the duality inherent in the police-magistracy system as provided in the police act, 1861 inhibit the police in quickly responding to ~ituations and effects their efficiency in their primary task of crime c<mtrol and maintenance of law and order alter considering all aspects of the matter and in the interest of improvement of the efficiency of the police in the capital city, it was felt that the balance of advantage would be in favour of a change-over to the police commissioner system which avoids such duality and which has been working efficiently in bombay, calcutta and madras and other metropolitan cities such as hyderabad, bangalore, ahmedabad, n agpur and poona 2 the delhi police ordinance 1978, was, therefore, promulgated to f:lcilitate the change-over to the police commissioner system, the ordinance 1s main1y based on the bombay police act, 1951 with some modifications to suit the reqllil'ements of delhi it provides for the appointment of a commissi~ner of police and the vesting in him, subject to the control of the administrator, of the direction and supervision of the police force in delhi under the ordinance, the commissione~ of police maybe empowered by the central government by notification in the' official gazette to exercise and perfonn in relation to delhi the powers and duties of an executive magistrate and of a district magi!ftrate under uch of the provisions of the code of criminal procedure, 1973 as may be specified in the notification similarly any officer subordinate 10 the commissioner of police, being an officer not below the rank of an assistant commissioner of police, may be empowered by the central government by notification in the official garre'tte to exercise and perform the powers and duties of an executive magistrate under such of the provisions of the code of criminal procedure, 1973 and in relation to such areas in delhi as may be specified in the notification the ordinance empowered the commissioner of police 1b exercise the powers of a district magistrate under the acts specified in schedule i thereto 3 the other important features of the ordinance are the following:-(a) the commissioner of police will have power to make regulations for regulating traffic of all kinds', licensing and controlling of places of public amusement or public entertainment or prohibiting the carrying of gun-powder or any other explosive substance in publie places, directing the closing or disuse of any s'ource, supply or receptacle of water and providing against pollution of the same or of water therein, regulating the conduct of assemblies' and processions, etc ('b) the commissioner of police will have power to disperse gangs and extern bad charac:tel1!l and habitual offenders (c) the commislllioner of police will have certain powers to prevent cruelty to animals (d) creation of certain new offences with respect to disregarding rujes of the road, causing obstruction or mischief by animals, causing obstruction in streets, doing offensive acts in or: near a street or public place, behaving indecently in public and annoying passengers in streets, etc ~ the bill seeks to replace the said ordinance the note on clauses explain the various provisions of the bill new delhi; dhanik lal mandal the 19th july, 1978  president's recommendation under article 117 of the constittmon of india(copy of letter no u-1101415178-utl, dated the 14th july, 1978 from shri dhanik lal mandal, minister of state in the ministry of home affairs to the secretary, lok sabha) the president, having been infonned of the subject matter of the bill to amend and consolidate the law relating to the regulation of the police in the union terriory 'of delhi, recommends to lok sabha the consideration of the said bill under clause (3) of article 117 of the constitution clause 2-this clause contains definitions of certain terms and expressions used in the bill ctauses 3 to 1s-these clauses, corresponding to sections 3 to 5, 7, 9, 10 tq 12a, ]4'0 16,20 to 22 of the bombay police act, 1951, relate to organisation, superintendence and control of the police force there shall be one police force for the whole of delhi the officers and subordinate ranks of the p:>lice force shall be liable for posing to any branch of the force including the delhi armed police the superintendence of -the police force will vest in the admin'istra'tor who may, by general or special order, determine the size and organisation of the fqrce and powers, functions and duties of the police the recruitment to, and the pay, allowances and all other conditions of service of~ha members of, the police force (other than those belonging to the indian police service or the delhi, andaman and nicobar islancis police service) shall be governed by rules to be made by the administrator the administrator shall appoint a commissioner of police for the direc don and supervl<;'ion of the pglice force he will exercise and perfonn such powers, duties md functions as are specified by or under this bill one or more additional commissioners of police may be appoith~ed by the administrator the additional commissiqller of police will assist the commissioner in the exercise of his powers and perfonnance of his duties in such manner and to slich extent as may be specified by the administrator he shall also exercise such powers and perform such duties of the c()mmissioner within such local limits as the administrator may specify - the administrator may appoinl deputy commissioners of police, additional deputy commissioners of police and assiitant commissioners qf police the powers ond duties of these officers and the local limits of their jurisdiction may be specified by the commissioner of police subject to any general or special order of the administrator the principal of the police training school shall be appointed by the administrator he shall be a police officer not below the rank of deputy commissioner of police he shall exercise such powers and' duties as may be assigned to him, by· the commissioner of police, for the proper functioning of that school the administrator may establish a police training college and appoint a police :>fficer of appropriate rank to be its principal the commissioner of police will assign to the principal of the police training college such power!' and duties as he deems fit for the proper adminis-~ration of that college subject to the control of the administrator, the omlmissioner of police shall constitute police districts, divide such districts into police sub-divi-~ions, specify the police gtptions in each sub-division and define the limits and extent of such police districts, police sub-divisions and police s~atiqns each police district, police sub-division and police ljta'tion will, respectiv&-iy, be under the charge of a deputy commissioner of police, assistant commissioner of police and inspector of police a deputy commissioner of police may be assisted in the discharge of his duties by one or more additional deputy commissioners of police the inspectors of police are to be appointed by the additional commissioner of police and s'ub-inspectors of police and o~her officers of subordinate rank will be appointed by the deputy commissioner of p~ice, additional deputy commissioner of police, principal of the police training college or police training school or any other police officer of equivalent rank every officer of the rank of inspector and below shall receive a certificate of appointment to be issued under the seal 01 such officer, and shall be in such form, as the administra1tor may specify the certi~ate shall become null and void when the officer to whom it is issued ceases to belong to the delhi police and shall remain inoperative when such officer is suspended the powers, functions and privileges of a police officer will remain suspended when the officer is under suspension but such officer shall continue to be subject to' the control of the ~me authorhlies to which he would have been subject but for his suspension clauses 15 and 16 specify th~ general powers of the commissioner' of police and his authority to investigate and regulate matters of accounts connected with the delhi police clauses 17 and 18 relate to appointment of special p(11ice officers and addition&l police officers by the commissioner of police in certain circumstances clauses 19 to 27-thest' clauses, corresponding to sections 23 to 31 of the bombay police act, 1951 deal with the regul:a!tion, oqntml and discipline of the delhi police clause 19 empowers the commissionel'\ of police to frame regulations, subject to the orders of the administrator for the administration of the police clause 20 empowers the commissioner to can for returns, rep9rts and statements from his subordinates on any s'1lbject connected with the prevention and detection of crime, etc clause 21 specifies the penalties that may be imposed on police officers of subordinate rank and the officers c'lmpetent to impose such penalties clause 22 jays down the procedure for «·yarding punishments clause 23 provides jor an appeal from certain orders of punishment passed against police officers and specifies the appellate authoriti~ clause 24 provides tha~ pojice officers shall be dremed to be always on duty and be liable to be employed in any part of delhi clause 25 lays down the circumstances under which a police officer of subordinate rank may resign and the procedure for acceptin!! such resignation clause 26 enjoins that the certiflcate, arms, etc, issued to a police' officer shall be delivered up by him on ceasing to be a police officer if the certificate arms, etc, are not so delivered, any metropolitan magistrate or a police offic'er specified in sub ·clause (2) (a) of tnat clause may issue a warrant for the sejzure thereof and such warrant shall be executed as if it were a search warrant for a search issued under the code of criminal procedure 1973 the provision of this cl~u$e will not apply in relation to any article which has becomethe property of the person concemed by virtue of orders issued by the commi9sioner of police~ clause· 27 deals with occupation ofjand liability to vacate, premises pl-qvided for police otftcers by the commmioner of police if any person to ',hom ,~he prea mises have been allotted fails to vacate the same when he is bound or required to do so, he may be ordered to vacate the premises by the administrator or any other 'officer authori~ by the administrator and any police officer may be directed to enter upon the premises, with such assistance as may be necessary, and remove therefrom any person found therein and to take possession of the premises and deliver the same to the person specified in the direction clauses 2s to 37-these clauses, c?rresponding to sections 33, 36, 37, 41, 38 to 40, 43, 34 and 35 of the bombay police act, 1951, empower the commislsioner of police to--(a) make regulations for controlling traffic and preservation of qrder in public places, etc; (b) give directions to public as to thecond,uct of, and behaviour' or action of persons constituting processions or assemblies on or along streets, 'specify the routes by which and the time 8it which any such procession may pass or shall not pass, etc; (c) prohibit the carrying of 8rms, cudgels, swords, bludgeons, guns, knives, sticks or lat,his or any other ~tic1e capable of being used for causing physical violence, corrosive subgtance or explc'l",ives, etc, for the preservation of public peare or public safety arms, etc, winch are carried in contravt;ntion of such prohitbition are liable to be seized; (d) prohibit any assembly or procession whenever vnd for such time as he considers necessary for the preservlation of public order such prohibition sh~l1 not remain in force for more 'than fifteen days but the admini~trator may extend the opera~ion thereof for such further period, not exceeding six months from ',the date on which jt would have otherwise expired as he may spectfy; (e) prevent, prohibit, etc, continuance of music, sound 'or noise, use of loudspeaker, etc; (f) close or take possession of any building or other place for prevention or suppression of any riot or grave disturbance of peace; (,g) take special measures to prevent out-break of epidemic diseases at fairs, etc; (h) reserve street or other public place for a public purpose and a\litholrise the erection of barriers in streets; (i) make regulations prohibiting disposal of the dead except at places set apart for sueh purp:lse ' clause 3'1 empowers any police office"l' of the rank 'of assistant sub-tnspector and above present at a place of ~ublic amusemen~ or assembly or meeting to give rea!anable direttion~ for securing the peaceful and lawful conduct of the proceedings and the maintenance of the public safety " 1 l' ,-r under clause 34 the competent authority may give necessary and reasonable orders as to the conciuct of persons where; a dispute or contention exists as to an actual 01' intended religious or ceremonial or corporate display, etc, in any street or public place or as to the conduct of, or participation in, such display butwhile giving such orders, regard shall be had to the apparent legal rights and to any established practice of the parties and of the persons interested clauses 38 to 58-these clauses, corresponding to sections 47, 50, 48, 51, 551 to 62, 63a and 63b of the bombay police act, 1951, provide for special measures being taken for maintenance of public order and! security of the state clauses 38 and 391 provide for the employmeilit of additional police to keep peace and in cases of special danger to public peace clause 40 provides for the employment of additional police at large works and when apprehension regqrding behaviour of employees exists clauses 41· to 45 deal with award ot compensation for injury caused by unlawful assembly, recovery thereof from persons participating in such assembly, disputes as to cost of deputing additional police or compensation, etc clauses 46 to 48 empower the commissioner of police to disperse gangs and body of persons causing or are like1y to cause danger to person or property, etc, removal of persons about to commit offences m persons convicted of cei1tain offences if they are likely to engage again in the commission of any such offence these provisions are based on sections 55, 56 and 57 of the bomlbay police act, 1951 supplemented by the provisions of 'the rajasthan control of goondas act, 1975 a direction made under the provisions envisaged in clauses 46, 47 or 48 shall remain in operation for such period not exceeding two years as may be specified therein clause 50 lays down the procedure to be followed in making an order under clause 46, 47 or 48 clause 51 provides for appeals from such orders to admihistrator and lays down the procedure for preferring such appe~ clause 52 provides that an order passed by the commissioner of police under clause 46, 47 or 48 or an order in appeal made by the administrator shall net be called in question in any court except on certain grounds specifi£'d in that claus'e clause 53 authorises the cqlillllissioner of police to cause the arrest and removal to a, place outsl~e delhi or any part thereof, of any person who fails to obey a direction i&'sued under clause 46, 47 or 48 or enters into the area from which he was directed to remove himself otherwise than with the permission at the commissioner of police in writing under clause 54 i  clause 54 relates to gj:&nt of terp~rary permission for externees to enter the area from ~hich they ~ere directed to remove themselves and the consequences ·of non-obiervance of the conditions of such permissim clauses 55 a'nd 56 (new provisions) provide for taking the measurement pnd photograph· of anrperson against whom an order under clause 46; 47 ~ 481 has been'rnade and- the eoillequences of resistance to taking! of measurements and photbgraph clause 57 empowers the administrator, in the interest of the security of the state or the m&intenance of public i')rder, to ban use of dress, etc, resembling uniform d armed forces or of any police fqrce clause 58 provides for the constitution of defence societies by commissioner of police for the protectiojil of persons, security of propel1~y and the public safety in any 'locality clauses 59 to 65-these clauses, corresponding to sections 71, 70, 80 (1), 81, 64, 66, 67, 98, 97, 68 and 69 of 'the bombay police ad:, 1951 specify the following executive duties and powers of police officers:-(a) duty of police officer to enforce provisions of the bill including the circumstances in which a police officer may arrest without warrant; (b) other duties of a police officer; (c) power to enter without warrant places of public resort for the purpose of discharging his duties referred to in clause 59 or 60; (d) power to search suspected persons in street, etc; (e) emergency duties of police when the administrator declares any specified service 'to be an essential &ervice to the community; (f) competence of a superior police officer to perform duties imposed on a subordinate officer; (g) obligation of the public to comply with reasonable directions of police officers and consequences of non-compliance clauses 66 to 69-these clauses, corresponding to sections 82 (1), 85-, 86 and 87 of the bombay police act, 1951 empower the police to take charge of unclaimed property and lay down the procedure in regard 11:0 its disposal clauses 7() to 72-these are rpecial provisions relating to exercise of powers under the code of criminal procedure, 1973 the central government may, by ncitification in 'the official gazette, authorise the commissioner of police to exercise the powers of a district magistrate and executive magistrate under such provisions of the code of criminal procedure, 1973, as may be specified in the notification by a similar notification the central government may authorise any offlcer subordinate to the commissioner of police (not being an offlcer below the rank of an assistant commissioner of police) to exercise the powers of an executive magistrate under such provisions of that code as may be specified in the notification sucr notifications are to be laid before the houses of parliament in pursuance of a resolution passed by parliament, as envisaged in section 478 of the code of criminal procedure, 1973, the central government had, by notification, directed 'that references to judicial magistrates in sections 108, 109 and 110 of that code shall, in relation to delhi, be cqll!trued as references to executive magistrates thereby making the powers 'confelted by those seqtions exercisable by executive magistrates in delhi clause 72 of the bill seeks to repeal the aforesaid notification with the result that the powers under sections 108, 109 and 110 of the code of criminal procedure, 1973 will revert- to metropolitan magistrates in delhi clauses 73 to 79·-'1'hese clauses, corresponding to sections 74 to 79 of the bombay police act, 1951, vest borne special powers in the police ofticers in relation to offences under the prevention of cruelty to animals act, 1960 these provisions shall be in addition to, and nqt in derogation of, the provisions of that act clauses 80 to 13l-these clauses, corresponding 'to sections 99 to 113, 115 to 122, 124, 126 to l31a, 133 to 142, 143a to 149a, 123, 151, 1ma and 152 of the bombay polict: act, 1951, specify the offences under the bill and the penalties therefor the bill creates 'the following offences, namely:-(1) disregarding the rules of the road (clause 80); (2) causing obstruction or mischief by animal in street or public place (clause 81); (3) e"1x>6ing animal for hire, sale, etc, in street or public place (clause 82); (4) causing any obs'truction in a street (clause 83); (5) obstructing a footway (clause 841); (6) causing obstruction to, and annoyance by, performances, etc (clause 85); (7) doing offensive acts in or near a street or public place (clavse 86); (8) letting loose horse, etc, and suffering ferocious doge; to be at large (clause 87); (9) bathing or washing in places not set apart for those purposes (clause 88); (10) defiling water in public wells, etc (clause 89); (11) obstructing bathers at places set apart for bathing (clause 00) ; (12) behaving indecently in public (clause 91); (13) obstructing or annoying passengers in the street (clause 92); (14) misbehaviour with intent to provoke a breach of the peace (clause 93); (15) flying kite or any other thing so as to cause danger, injury or alarm ito persons, animals or property (clause 94); (16) committing nuisance in or near street, etc (clause 95); (17) disregard of notice in public building (clause 96); (18) failure to keep in confinement cattle, etc (clause 98); (19) cruelty to animals (clause 99); (20) wilful trespass (clause 100); (21) giving false alarm of fire or causing damage to street flre alarm (clause 101); (22) being found under suspicious circumrtances between sunset and sunrise (clause 102); (23) possession of property of which no satisfactory account can be given (clause 103); (24) omission by pawnbrokers, etc, to report to police possession or tender of property suspected to be stolen (clause 104); (25-) melting, etc, of property suspected to be "tolen (clause 105); (26) 'taking pledge from "hild (clause 106);  (27) suffering disorderly conduct at places of public amusement, etc (clause 107); (28) cheating at games and gambling in street (clause 108); (29) disobedience of order under clause 27 (clause 109); (30) contravention of regulations, etc, under clause 28 (clause llu): (31) not obtaining licence in respect of place of public entertainment or cermficate of registration in respect of eating house, 0ir not renewing such licence or certificate within the prescribed period (clause 112); (32) contr-avention c:jf orders, etjc, ·tmder clauses 29 to 34 (clause 113) ; (33) contravention of regulations, etc, under clauses 35 to 37 (clause 114); (34) contravention of directions under clauses 46 to 48 (clause 115) ; (35) entering without pennission area from which a person is direcled ito remove himself or overstaying when permitted to return temporarily (clause 116); (36) contravention of orden under clause 57 (clal13e 117); (37) opposing or not complying with directiqn given under clause 59(l)(b) (clause 118); (38) contravening directions under clause 65 (clause 119); (39) holding or giving dangerous performances without previous permission (clause 120); (41) neglect or refusal to serve as special police officer (clause 121)~ (41) making false staternent, etc, and misconduct by police officez:s (elaue 122); (~ ·iailju'e tod4'liwr up' cel'ti6oate cdappqinftnent ·or other article in accordance wlth the provisions of clause 26 (1) (clause 123); , , i (4:t) vexatious entry, search, arrest, etc, by police officer (clause 124); ,; i " (44) vexatious delay in forwarding a person arrested (clause 125); (45) unauthorised use of jlqlice unifonns (clause 126); clause 127 empowers the commissioner of police to make regulations regarding the carrying of arms, etc, by persons other than members of the armed forces of the union and police oificers the regulatioos may provide for the forfeiture of such arms also under clause 128 when an offence punishable under clause 97, 104, 113 (1), 114, 119 or 121 bas not occasioned serious mischief ancl has been promptly desisted from 0i1'l a warning being given, it is not incumbent on ,the police to prosecute the offender clall:;es 129 to 131-clause 129 provides for summary disposal of certain offences in cases where the accused persons plead guilty clause 130 is of a clarifying nature clause 131 deals with offences by companies clauses 132 to 145-these clauses, corresponding to sections 153, 155 to 166 of the bombay police act, 1951, deal with miscellane()us matters and are self-explanatory clause 146 and schedule i-the commissioner of police is toi exercise all powers and discharge all functions of a district magistrate under the acts mentioned in schedule i and the rules made thereunder any additional commissioner of police, de-puty cwnmissioner of polire or additional deputy commissioner of police may be authorised by the comntissioner, in accordance with the general or special orders of the administrator,to exercise any such power or function clause 147-this clause empowers the adminlistrator to make rilles for carrying ou~ the purposes of this bill clause 148-this clause requires that every rule or regnlation to be made under this bill shall be notified in the official gazette and shall be laid before both the houses of parliament and the me~ropo1itan coiuncil of delhi clause 149 and schedule ji-:-this clause seeks to repeal the laws specified in s':!hedule ii and contains suitable saving provisions clau'!c 150 and schedule iii-this clause provides that the police officers specified in column (1) of schedule iii shall be deemed to have been appointed to, the posts specified in column (2) thereof accordingjy, the inspector general of police will become commissjoner of police, deputy inspector general of police will become additional cnmmissioner of police superintendents of police and assistant inspectors general of police will become deputy commissioners of police, additional superintendents of police will become adcliti<?nal depu'ty commissioners of police and assistant superintendents of p<,1iceand deputy superintendents of police will become assi~t commissioner's of police the police force constftuted under the police ac':, 1861 shall be deemed to have been constituted under this bill clause 151-this clause gives the central government the power to remove, by order, difficulties, if any, in giving effect to the provisions of this act in consequence of the transition from the provisions of the enactments mentioned in schedule ii clause 152-this clause provides for the repeal of the delhi police ordinance, 1978 and the saving of, actions ~aken thereunder clause 5 of the bill pl"<\vides for the constitution of the police force for delhi and clauses 6, 7, 8, 9 and 12 deal with the appoin'tment of a commissioner of police and other officers and subordinate ranks of that pojice force under clause 150 of the bill, the police foi'<'e functioning in delhi immediately before the co,mmencement of the act shall, on such comreencement, be deemed to 'be the police force constttuted under the act therefore, no additional expenditure is anticipated on account of these provisions 2 clause 17 of the bill provides for the appointment of special police officers and clause 18, read with clauses 38, 39' and 40 of the bill, deals with the appointment of additional police officers it is not possible to estimate the expenditure that may have to be incurred on account of the appointment of special police officers and additional police officers as they are to be appointed only if and when ·the contingencies contemplated inl those provisions otccur 3 sub-clause (1) of clause 33 of the bill empowers the commissioner of pojice to temporarily close or take possession of any building or qther place in certain circumstances under sub-clause (2) of that clause, if 'the lawful occupant of such building or place suffers any loss' or injury by reason of the actiqn taken under sub· clause (1), h~ shall be entitled to receive reasonable compensation for such loss or injury unless such aa~ion was in 'the opinion of the competent authority rendered necessary either by the use to which sllch building or place was put or intended! to be put c\l' by the misconduct of persons having acct-ss 'thereto compensation will have ito be paid only if any need arises for temporarily closing down or 'taking possession of any buikung or other place and therefor~ it is not possible to estimate the expenditure tha,t will have to be incurred on this account 4 under clause 41 of the bill when any loss or damage is causedl to any property or when death results or grievous hurt is caused :0 any person or persons hy anything done in the prosecution of the common object of an unlawful a:rnembly in a!1y disturbed area, tho districl collector may determine the amount of the compensation which should be paid to any person or persons in respect of ithe l~ or damage or death or grievs¥1s hurt and s1lch amount shall be payable by the inhabi'tant~ of the disturbed area the amount so recovered is to be credited to !the government, under sub-clause (1) of clause 44 of the bill from the amount so recovered, the district collector shall pay, under sub-clause (2) of clause 44, such amount as he deems just and proper by way of compensation to any person who has suffered loss or damage to property i)r grievous hurt or to the legal heirs of any person who died by reason of anylthing done in the prosecution of the common object qf the unlawful assembly as the compensation will he paid out of 'the amounts recovered undet clause 41 of the bill, there will be no expenditure from the consolidated fund oif india on this account 5 clause 70 of the bill empowers the central government to confer, by notification in the official gazette, on the commissioner of police powers and duties of an executive magistrate and of a district magis:,rate under such of the provisions of the code ot criminal procedure, 1~73 as may be- specified in the notification by a similar notification under that clause, the central government may confer on any officer subordinate to 'the comiilissioner of police not being an qfticer' below the rank of: an assistant commissioner of police) the powers and duties of an executive magistrate under such provisions of 'that code as may be specified in the notification under clause 146 (1) of the bill the powers of :1 district magistrate under the acts mentioned in schedu,le i are conferred on the commissioner of folice as a result of tha;e provisions part of the staff at present functioning under the district magistrate will have to be trans'" teited to the delhi' police organisation besides some adcri1lional ~taff may also have to be provided to the commis!;ioner of police    ~  6 under clause 72 of the bill, the powers under sections 108, 109 and 110 of the code of criminal procedure, 1973; which are at present being exercised by an executive magistrate, would, after the commencement of the act be exercised by the metropolitan magistrate in· delhi this woula necessitate the creation of some additional posts of· metropolitan magistral~es 7 the additional expendilture that would hav~ to be in~llrred on account of the provisions referred to in paragraphs !) bnd 6 is likely to be rs 4,36,579 'per annum: as against thjs certain pos's of additional di  trict magistrates and sub-divisional magistrates, which would be render'" eel surplus as a result of the enactment of ,the provisions of the bill are proposed to be surre:ridered and this wculdr~suh in a 'saving of'·rs 170 lakhs per annum the net additional expenditure on aecount of these provisions is therefore, likely to be rs 2,66,579 per: ~nnuin 8 no other recurring or non-recurring expenditure is likely to be involved if the diu is enaeted and brought into force , clause 147 of the bill empowers the administrator 'to make rules for c:arryine out the purposes of the proposed legislation sub-clause (2) of the clause catalogues the various matters with respect to which rules may be made 2 clause 19 of the bill empowers the commissioner of police to make regulations ~t inconsistent with the act or any other law for the time being in force, for the administration of the police the details of 'the matters in regard to which such regulations may be made are enumerated in the clause sub-clause (1) of clause 28 of the bill empowers the commissjoner of police to make regulations to provide for all or any of the 1datters mentioned in that clause 3 s'ub-clause (1) of clause 35 of the bill empowers the commissioner of police to prescribe regulations to be observed by the residents of any plnce in delhi which is visited ql' likely to be visted with an outbreak of any epidemic disease in order to prevent the oultbreak r)f such disease or othe spread thereof sub-clause (1) of clause 37 of the bill confers on the commissioner of police the power to make regulations prohibiting the tiiqposal of the dead, whether by cremetion, burial or otherwise at places other than those set apart for such pul'jk'se 4 under sub-clause (1) of clause 127, the commisaiqner of police may make regulations to provide that no person, other than a member of 'the armed forces of the union acting as such or a police oftlcer, shall go armed with sword, spear, bludgeon, gun t'il' other offensive weapon or with! any ezploiive or· coitosive ijubbtance in any street or pubuc place unless so authorised by such authority as may be specified in such i'f'gulations the regulations made ullder this sub-clause may also provide for the consequences of the contraven~ioll of such regulation includ1ng the forfeiture of the weapon 5 the matters with respect to which the rules or regulations referred to above may be made are matters of procedure or of de~an and it may not be possiblp to provide for them in the bill itself m'kjiieover under clause 148 the rules and regulations will have to be laid before each house of parliament and they will be subject b scrutiny of parliament fl the delegation of legislative power under the provisions of the bill referred to above is, therefore, of a norma] character the bill contains certain modifications of a minor nature these are dealt with in the following paragraphs 2 section 19 of the ordinance provides for two different fonn of subordinate legislation, namely regulations and orders to be made by the commissioner of police as there can be no difference between the two forms in ,the context, the reference to orders has been omitted as unnecessary (t)ide clause 19 of the bill) 3 section 23 of the ordinance, which provides {or appeals from orders of plfnishment, has been modified to cover appeals from orders passed by the commissioner of police (vide clause 23 of the bill) 4 section 147 (2) of the ordinance has been amplified to spell out expressly the various matters in regard to which rules may be made ['vide clause 147 (2) of the bill] 5 the other modifications are of a purely formal, drafting or consequen,tial nalure amongst these, mention may be made of changes made  with a view to making the arrangement of certain provisions or groups of provisions of the bill more logical in section 59 (2) of the ordinance [clause 59(2) of the bill], the clauses have been re-arranged in section 113 of the ordinance (clause 113 of the bill), ,the sub-sections have been re-arranged sections 115 to 125 have been slightly re-arranged in the bill-section 115 being clause 119, section 125 being clause 118, sections 116 to 118 being clauses 115 w 117 respectively, and sections 119 to 124 being clauses 120 to 125  a billto amend and consolidate the l~w relating to the regulation of the police in the union territory of delhi (shri dhanik wz mandal, ~minibter ~ stgte in the  minibtry oj home affair,) 