Police Act,1888
Act No : 3
Section : TITLE AND EXTENT
POLICE ACT, 1888
3 of 1888
[17th February, 1888.]
STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS "Under the provisions of the various Police Acts in force in British India, namely. Acts 24 of 1859 and 5 of 1861 and Bombay Act 7 of 1867, the employment of police officers is restricted to the presidency, province or place of the police establishment of which they are members. These provisions cause much inconvenience. In the case of a railway system passing through territories under the administration of different Local Governments, they necessitate the employment of a different police force under the control of a different authority for each portion of the line which is within the limits of the territories of a different Local Government. On the North Western Railway, for example, there are at present no less than seven different forces of police under the control of various authorities. Again these provisions prevent even the temporary employment, on an emergency, of police officers of one province in any part of another province. With the object of removing these inconveniences this Bill has been prepared.
In order to provide for the employment, under the control of one police authority, of one police force within limits which are not conterminous with the limits of a Local Administration, the Bill empowers the Governor-General in Council to create general police districts embracing parts of two or more provinces and to enroll for service therein a special police force under special police authorities, and it further authorises the temporary employment of police officers in places beyond the presidency or general police district to which they belong."-Gaz. of Ind., 1888, Part V, page 130.
An Act to amend the law relating to the Regulation of Police. WHEREAS it is expedient to relax those provisions of Acts for the regulation of police which restrict the employment of police officers to the presidency, province or place of the police establishment of which they are members; It is hereby enacted as follows :-
The Act has been declared, by notification under section 3(a) of the Scheduled Districts Act, 1874 (14 of 1874), to be in force in the Districts of Hazaribagh, Lohardaga (now called the Ranchi District, see Calcutta Gaz., 1899, Pt. I, p. 44), Manbhum and Palamau, and in Pargana Dhalbhum and the Kolhan in the Singbhum District, see Gazette of India, 1895, Pt. I, page 130; and by notification under the Sonthal Parganas Settlement Regulation (3 of 1872), section 3(3)(a) to be in force in the sonthal Parganas, see Bihar and Orissa Gazette, 1930, Pt. II, page 880. It has been extended to Berar by Berar Laws Act, 1941 (4 of 1941). The Act has been extended to the new Provinces and Merged States bythe Merged States (Laws) Act, 1949 (59 of 1949), s.3 (1-1-1950) and to the States of Manipur, Tripura and Vindhya Pradesh by the Union Territories (Laws) Act, 1950 (30 of 1950). s. 3 (16-4-1950). Manipur and Tripura are States now (see Act 81 of 1971). but Vindhya Pradesh is a part of the State of M.P. (see Act 37 of 1956, s. 9). It has also been extended lo States merged in the States of- Bombay : see Bom. Act 4 of 1950, s. 3 (30-3-1950). Punjab : see Punj. Act 5 of 1950, s. 3 (15-4-1950). The Act has also been extended to the Union Territories of- (1) Goa, Daman and Diu, by Regn. 12 of 1962 (15-12-1963); (2) Dadra and Nagar Haveli, by Regn. 6 of 1963; (3) Pondicherry, by Regn. 7 of 1963 (1-10-1963); (4) Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands, by Regn. 8 of 1965
(1-10-1967). The Act has been extended to Sikkim by S.O. 208(E), dated 16-5-1975, see Gaz. of India, 16-5-1975, Pt. II. S. 3(ii), Ext.,p. 1213.
SECTION 01: TITLE AND EXTENT
(1) This Act may be called The Police Act, 1888.
2[(2) It extends to the whole of India.]3[*].3[* * * * * * * * *].
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