THE PUNJAB FRONTIER POLICE-OFFICERS REGULATION, 1893
(REGULATION No. VII 1893)

CONTENTS.

Sections.

1.         Title, extent and commencement.

2.         Sections 20 of Act V of   1861   not  to  apply  to  certain Police Officers.

3.         Lieutenant-Governor empowered to  confer magisterial powers on certain   Police Officers.

4.         Validation of authority exercised by certain Police Officers.

5.         Validation   of   magisterial  powers  exercised   by certain Police Officers.

REGULATION    No.    VII   OF    1893.
THK   PUNJAB   FRONTIER   POLK l-.-OKFICKRS   REGULATION,
1893-

[Received the Governor- General's assent on the 20th May, 1893; published in the Gazette of India on the 21 the May, 1893; and the Punjab Government Gazette on the 1st, June, 1893].

A Regulation to authorize the conferment of certain powers on Assistant District Superintendents of Police in the Punjab.

            WHEREAS by section 20 of Act, V of 1861 [1][for the Regulation of Police] it was enacted that Police-officers enrolled under that Act should not exercise any authority except the authority provided for a Police-officer under that Act and any Act which should thereafter be passed for regulating criminal pro­cedure.
            And whereas by section 14 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1882,[2][which Code repealed] certain Similar provisions in Act V of 1861, H was enacted that the [3][Local Government] might confer upon any person all or any of the powers ' conferred or conferrable by or under that Code on a Magistrate of the first, second or third class in respect to particular cases, or to a particular class or particular classes of cases or in regard to ases generally, hi any local area outside the Presidency towns, but that no powers should be conferred under that section on any Police-officer below the grade of Assistant District Superintendent, and that no powers should be so conferred except so far as might be necessary for preserving the peace, preven­ting crime and detecting, apprehending and detaining offenders in order to their being brought before a Magistrate, and for the per­formance by the officer of any other duties imposed upon him by any law for the time being in force;

            And whereas it is expedient that certain Assistant District Superin­tendents   of Police in the districts of [4][Hazara],  [5][Peshawar], [6][Kohat],

[7][Bannu],[8][Dera small Khan] and [9][Dera Gliazi Khan] be enabled to exercise authority other than that prescribed by section 20 of Act V of 1861;

            And whereas it is also expedient to empower the [10][Lieutenant-Governor] of the Punjab to confer on such Assistant District Superin­tendents of Police in the aforesaid Districts as are hereinafter "men­tioned all or any of the powers conferred or conferrable by or under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1882 [11][on a Magistrate]of the first, second or third class:

And   whereas   previous   to   the   passing   of  this   Regulation authority other than that prescribed by section 20 of Act V of  1861 . ha, been   exercised   in   certain   of  the     aforesaid    districts   by Assistant District Superintendents of Police;

And whereas also in some of the aforesaid districts powers other than those conferrable by section 14 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1882, 4have been conferred on and exercised by an Assistant District Superintendent of Police ;

And Whereas it is also expedient that past exercise of the afore­ said authority and powers should not be impeached for want of authority in such officers:
It is hereby enacted as follows :—

1.         (1) This Regulation may be called the Punjab Frontier Police -Officers Regulation, 1893.

            (2)   it extends to the districts to Hazara, Peshawar, Kohat, Bannu Dera Ismail Khan and Dera Ghazi Khan; and

            (3)   It shall come into force at once.