Indian Tolls Act : Assistance of collectors by Police-officers Indian Bare Acts :

Indian Tolls Act,1851

Act No : 8

Section : Assistance of collectors by Police-officers

5. Assistance of collectors by Police-officers.--All Police- officers shall be bound to assist the toll-collectors, when required, in the execution of this Act; and, for that purpose, shall have the same power which they have in the exercise of their common police- duties. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Subs. by the A.P. 1937, for "The Governor of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, the Lieutenant-Governor of the North- Western Provinces of bengal and the Governor of Bengla and the Governor of the Presidency of Fort St. George in Council". The words "and the Governor of the Presidency of Bombay in Council" had been rep. by Act 8 of 1888, s. 5. The authority of the Provincial Government in any Province of India not specified in s. 1A to which this Act and the Indian Tolls Act, 1864 (15 of 1864), may be or have been extended, is to be the same as if it had been originally specified in s. 2. See the Indian Tolls Act, 1888 (8 of 1888), s. 2 (1). 2. The words "not exceeding the rates mentioned in the Schedule annexed to this Act" omitted by Act 38 of 1920, s. 2 and Sch. I. 3. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, ibid., for "they respectively think fit." 4. Subs., ibid., for "at the expense of the Govt.". 5. Subs., ibid., for "them". 6. The words "of troops and military stores and equipages on their march or" rep. by Act 2 of 1901, s. 8 and Sch. 31