
 State of Tamilnadu- Act
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 Chennai City Police (Extension to the City of Tiruppur) Act, 2012
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 TAMILNADU
   
 India
 
 Chennai City Police (Extension to the City of Tiruppur) Act, 2012
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 Act 35 of 2012
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* Published on 14 November 2012
* Commenced on 14 November 2012
 Chennai City Police (Extension to the City of Tiruppur) Act, 2012
 
 (Act
 No. 35 of 2012 
 )
 
 Last Updated 23rd January, 2020
 
 [Dated 14.11.2012]
 
 An Act to extend the provisions of the Chennai City Police Act, 1888 to the City of Tiruppur.
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Sixty-third Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
 
### 1. Short title and commencement.
(1) This Act may be called the Chennai City Police (Extension to the City of Tiruppur) Act, 2012.
 
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 8th day of October 2012.
 
### 2. Definitions.
 - In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
 
(1) "appointed day" means the 8th day of October 2012;
 
(2) "City of Tiruppur" means the City of Tiruppur as defined in clause (a) of section 2 of the Tiruppur City Municipal Corporation Act, 2008 (Tamil Nadu Act 7 of 2008);
 
(3) "City Police Act" means the Chennai City Police Act, 1888 (Tamil Nadu Act III of 1888);
 
(4) "Government" means the State Government;
 
(5) "law in force" includes any enactment, Ordinance, regulation, order, by-law, rule, scheme or notification in force in the whole or in any part of the State of Tamil Nadu or any instrument having the force of law in the whole or in any part of the State of Tamil Nadu.
 
### 3. Extension of Tamil Nadu Act III of 1888.
(1) With effect on and from the appointed day, the City Police Act as in force immediately before the appointed day, shall stand extended to, and shall be in force, in the City of Tiruppur.
 
(2) In the City Police Act as extended to the City of Tiruppur,-
 
(a) any reference to the City of Chennai other than the reference in section 3 shall, by reason of this Act, be construed as a reference to the City of Tiruppur;
 
(b) any reference to the Presidency Magistrate shall, by reason of this Act, be construed as a reference to the Judicial Magistrate;
 
(c) any reference to the Commissioner shall, by reason of this Act, be construed as Commissioner of Police for Tiruppur with whom the administration of the Police of the City of Tiruppur shall be vested.
 
### 4. Power of Government to authorise Commissioner of Police for the City of Tiruppur and certain other Police officers in the City of Tiruppur to exercise powers of District Magistrate and Executive Magistrate under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.
(1) Without prejudice to the provisions contained in section 7 of the City Police Act, the Government may, by notification, and subject to such conditions and limitation as may be specified therein, empower, -
 
(a) The Commissioner of Police for Tiruppur to exercise and perform in relation to the City of Tiruppur, 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 (hereinafter in this section referred to as the said Code) or of any other law in force relating to matters with respect to which the State Legislature has power to make laws for the State, as may be specified in the notification (Central Act of 1974);
 
(b) any officer subordinate to the Commissioner of Police in the City of Tiruppur (not being an officer below the rank of an Assistant Commissioner of Police) to exercise and perform in relation to the City of Tiruppur as may be specified in the notification, the powers and duties of an Executive Magistrate under such of the provisions of the said Code or of any other law in force relating to matters with respect to which the State Legislature has power to make laws for the State, as may be specified in the notification.
 
(2) Every officer subordinate to the Commissioner of Police in the City of Tiruppur shall, in the exercise and performance of any powers and duties, which he is empowered to exercise or perform under sub-section (1), be subject to the general control of the said Commissioner of Police in the same manner and to the same extent as an Executive Magistrate appointed under section 20 of the said Code would be subject to the general control of the District Magistrate appointed under that section.
 
(3) The Commissioner of Police in the City of Tiruppur or any officer subordinate to the Commissioner, shall not be subject, in the exercise and performance of any powers and duties which he is empowered to exercise and perform under sub-section (1), to the general control of the District Magistrate appointed under section 20 of the said Code.
 
### 5. Police force functioning in the City of Tiruppur immediately before the appointed day to be deemed to be police force constituted under the City Police Act as extended.
(1) The police force functioning in the City of Tiruppur immediately before the appointed day (hereinafter in this section referred to as the existing police force) shall, on the appointed day, be deemed to be the police force constituted for the City of Tiruppur under the City Police Act as extended by this Act and every member of the existing police force holding the office mentioned in column (1) of the Schedule immediately before the appointed day shall be deemed to be appointed, on such appointed day, to the office mentioned in the corresponding entry in column (2) of that Schedule.
 
(2) All proceedings (including proceedings by way of investigations) pending before any police officer of the existing police force immediately before the appointed day shall, on the appointed day, be deemed to be proceedings pending before him in his capacity as the holder of the office Central Act 2 of 1974. to which he is deemed to be appointed under sub-section (1) and shall be dealt with accordingly.
 
(3) Where any power or function which may be exercised or discharged under any law by a District Magistrate or an Executive Magistrate immediately before the appointed day has been conferred on the Commissioner of Police or any other police officer by or under the City Police Act as extended, all proceedings in relation to, or arising from, the exercise of such power or the discharge of such function pending immediately before such conferment before the District Magistrate, or Executive Magistrate, as the case may be, shall on the conferment of such power or function, on the Commissioner of Police or other police officer, stand transferred to the Commissioner of Police for the City of Tiruppur 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 transfer.
 
### 6. Control of the Director- General of Police over the Commissioner of Police for Tiruppur.
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the City Police Act as extended, the Commissioner of Police for Tiruppur shall, in the exercise of his functions under the City Police Act as extended, be under the control and direction of the Director-General of Police for the State of Tamil Nadu, subject to any rules that may be made under sub-section (2).
 
(2) It shall be competent to the Government to make rules to limit and regulate the exercise of the powers of, control and direction conferred on, the Director-General of Police by sub-section (1) in respect of the Commissioner of Police for Tiruppur.
 
(3) Nothing in this section shall apply in relation to the powers and functions which may be exercised or discharged by the Commissioner of Police for Tiruppur under any law as a District Magistrate or an Executive Magistrate.
 
### 7. Construction of reference to laws not in force in the City of Tiruppur.
(1) Any reference in the City Police Act as extended by this Act to a law which is not in force in the City of Tiruppur on the appointed day shall, in relation to the said City, be construed as a reference to the corresponding law, if any, in force in the said City.
 
(2) Any reference to the Tamil Nadu District Police Act, 1859 (Central Act XXIV of 1859) in any law in force in the City of Tiruppur shall, in relation to the City, be construed, on and after the appointed day, as a reference to the City Police Act.
 
### 8. Repeal of corresponding Law.
 - If, immediately before the appointed day, there is any law in force in the City of Tiruppur including the Tamil Nadu District Police Act, 1859 (Central Act XXIV of 1859) (hereinafter in this section referred to as the Central Act) and the provisions of the City Police Act specified in the Schedule to the Central Act and extended by way of notification under section 54-A of the Central Act corresponding to the City Police Act, such corresponding law shall, on the appointed day, stand repealed in relation to the City of Tiruppur, to the extent to which the corresponding law relates to matters with respect to which the State Legislature has power to make laws for the State.
 
### 9. Savings.
(1) The repeal by section 8 of any corresponding law shall not affect,-
 
(a) the previous operation of any such law or anything done or duly suffered thereunder; or
 
(b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under any such law; or
 
(c) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any such law; or
 
(d) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid;
 
 and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed as if the City Police Act had not been extended.
 
(2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1), anything done or any action taken, including any appointment or delegation made, notification, order, instruction or direction issued, rule, regulation, form, by law or scheme framed, certificate, permit or licence granted or registration effected under such corresponding law, in relation to the City of Tiruppur, shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of the City Police Act and shall continue in force accordingly, unless and until superseded by anything done or any action taken under the said City Police Act as extended.
 
### 10. Construction of reference to authorities where new authorities have been constituted.
 - Any reference by whatever form or words in any law in force to any authority competent on the date immediately preceding the appointed day, to exercise any powers or discharge any functions in the City of Tiruppur shall, where a corresponding new authority has been constituted by or under the City Police Act as extended or under this Act to the said City, have effect as if it were a reference to that new authority.
 
### 11. Powers of courts and other authorities for purpose of facilitating application of the City Police Act.
 - For the purpose of facilitating the application, in the City of Tiruppur, of the City Police Act as extended, any court or other authority may construe the said Act with such alteration not affecting the substance as may be necessary or proper to adapt it to the matter before the court or other authority.
 
### 12. Power to make rules.
(1) The Government may make rules for carrying out all or any of the purposes of this Act.
 
(2) All rules made under this Act shall be published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette and unless they are expressed to come into force on a particular day, shall come into force on the day on which they are so published.
 
(3) All notifications issued under this Act shall, unless they are expressed to come into force on a particular day, come into force on the day on which they are published.
 
(4) Every rule made or notification or order issued under this Act shall, as soon as possible after it is made or issued, be placed on the table of the Legislative Assembly, and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so placed or the next session, the Legislative Assembly agrees that the rule or notification or order should not be made or issued, the rule or notification or order shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule or notification or order.
 
### 13. Power to remove difficulties.
 - If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of the City Police Act as extended by this Act, to the City of Tiruppur, the Government may, as occasion may require, by order, do anything which appears to them to be necessary for the purpose of removing the difficulty:
 
 Provided that no order shall be made under this section after the expiry of two years from the appointed day.
 
### 14. Repeal and saving.
(1) The Chennai City Police (Extension to the City of Tiruppur) Ordinance, 2012 (Tamil Nadu Ordinance 18 of 2012) is hereby repealed.
 
(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the said Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the provisions of this Act.
 
 The Schedule.
 
 (See section 5)
 
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 Designation of officer as immediately before
 
 the appointed day.
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 Post to which the officer shall be deemed to be appointed.
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 (1)  Superintendent of Police.
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 Commissioner of Police:
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 Provided that after the appointed day, the Government may appoint
 
 as Commissioner of Police an officer in the rank of Deputy
 
 Inspector-General of Police:
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 Provided further that where a Commissioner of Police is appointed
 
 in the rank of Deputy Inspector- General of Police, the
 
 Government may appoint a Deputy Commissioner of Police in the
 
 rank of Superintendent of Police.
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 (2)  Deputy Superintendent of Police.
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 Assistant Commissioner of Police.
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