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Section 47: Employment of additional Police on application of a person.

The Maharashtra Police Act.State Act of Maharashtra · Act 22 of 1951

(1) The Commissioner or [Superintendent] may, on the application of any person, depute any additional number of Police to keep the peace, to preserve order or to enforce any of the provisions of this or any other Act in respect of any particular class or classes of offences or to perform any other Police duties at any place in the area under his charge.

(2) Such additional Police shall be employed at the cost of the person making the application, but shall be subject to the orders of the Police authorities and shall be employed for such period as the appointing authority thinks fit.

(3) If the person upon whose application such additional Police are employed shall at any time make a written requisition to the appointing authority to which the application for the employment of additional Police was made, for the withdrawal of the said Police, he shall be relieved from the cost thereof at the expiration of such period not exceeding one month from the date of the delivery of such requisition, as the State Government or the appointing authority, as the case may be, shall determine.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Maharashtra Police Act.
Section47
Marginal noteEmployment of additional Police on application of a person.
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.

  • substituted, Mah. 46 of 1962. This word was substituted for words "District Superintendent" by Mah. 46 of 1962, s. 3, Sch.

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