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Section 5: Powers, protection and control.

The Maharashtra Home Guards Act.State Act of Maharashtra · Act 3 of 1947

(1) A member of the Home Guards when called out under section 4 shall have the same powers, privileges and protection as an officer of police appointed under any Act for the time being in force.

(2) No prosecution shall be instituted against a member of the Home Guards in respect of anything done or purporting to be done by him in the discharge of his functions [or duties] as such member, except with the previous sanction of the Commissioner of Police, Bombay, in Greater Bombay, and of the District Magistrate, elsewhere.

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ActThe Maharashtra Home Guards Act.
Section5
Marginal notePowers, protection and control.
JurisdictionState of Maharashtra
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • inserted, Bom. 11 of 1950. These words were inserted by Bom. 11 of 1950, s. 5.

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