(1) This Act may be called the Bombay State Reserve Police Force Act, 1951.
2[(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Bombay.]
(3) It shall come into force 3["in the pre-Reorganisation State of Bombay] on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette 4[appoint in this behalf ; and in that part of the State to which it is extended by the Bombay State Reserve Police Force (Extension and Amendment) Act, 1958, it shall come into force on such other date as that Government may, by like notification, appoint].
(4) It shall apply to the members of the State Reserve Police Force, wherever they may be.
2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-
(a) "active duty" means-
(i) the duty to 5[prevent or] investigate offences involving a breach of peace or danger to life or property and to search for and apprehend persons concerned in such offences or who are so desperate and dangerous as to render their being at large hazardous to the community;
(ii) the duty to take all adequate measures for the extinguishing of fires or to prevent damage to person or property on the occasion of such occurrences as fires, floods, earthquakes, enemy action or riots and to restore peace and preserve order on such occasions ;
(iii) such other duty as may be specified to be active duty by the State Government or the Inspector-General in a direction issued under section 10;
(b) " Commandant " and "Assistant Commandant" mean respectively persons appointed to those offices by the State Government under section 5;
(c) " Commissioner of Police " and " Deputy Commissioner " means respectively a Commissioner of Police and a Deputy Commissioner of Police appointed under the Bombay Police Act, 1951;
(d) " Follower " means any person appointed to do the work of a cook, mess servant, washerman, cobbler, barber, tailor, sweeper or an orderly in connection with the State Reserve Police Force ;
(e) " members of the subordinate ranks" means members of the State Reserve Police Force below the rank of 6[ Battalion Commander or Commander of Head Quarters Wing];
Short title, extent, commencement and application.
Bom. LXXIV of
1958.
Definitions.
Bom. XXII of 1951.
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(f) "Police Officer " means every police officer as defined by the Police Act, 1861, or the Bombay Police Act, 1951 ;
(g) " Prescribed " means prescribed by rules made under this Act ;
(h) " reserve police officer " means any member of the State Reserve Police Force established under this Act ;
(i) "superior officer" means in relation to any reserve police officers reserve police officer of a higher rank than, or of a higher grade in the same class as, or of the same rank as but senior to, himself;
(j) the words and expressions used herein and which are defined in the Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, and the Bombay Police Act, 1951, and not hereinbefore defined, shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in those enactments.