(1) In addition to the Police Force constituted under the Bombay Police Act, 1951 (Bom. XXII of 1951), the State Government may establish and maintain an armed reserved police force known as the State Reserve Police Force.
(2) The State Reserve Police Force shall be established and maintained in such manner as may be prescribed.
(3) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the pay, pension and other conditions of service of members of the State Reserve Police Force shall be such as may be determined by the State Government:
Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to the pay, pension and other conditions of service of the members of the Indian Police or the Indian Police Service who may be transferred to the State Reserve Police Force.
[(3A) Every person who, immediately before the commencement of this Act in that part of the State to which it is extended by the Bombay State Reserve Police Force (Extension and Amendment) Act, 1958 (Bom. LXXIV of 1958), was a member of the Reserve Police Force constituted under the Saurashtra Reserve Police Force Act, 1955 (Sau. IX of 1955), or of any armed Reserve Police Force constituted under any other law for the time being in force, and serving therein in connection with the affairs of the State of Bombay shall (unless the State Government by order otherwise provides) on such commencement be deemed to be a member of the State Reserve Police Force constituted under this Act, and accordingly the provisions of this Act shall apply to him, and he shall be deemed to be vested with the powers, functions and privileges and be subject to the liabilities of a member of such State Reserve Police Force, or of the relevant grade thereof ; but the pay, rights as respects pension and other conditions of service applicable to him immediately before the commencement of this Act in that part of the State shall continue to apply to him until altered, repealed or amended by the State Government under sub-section (3) but such alteration, repeal or amendment shall be subject to the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 115 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 (XXXVII of 1956).]
(4) The State Government or any officer empowered by it in this behalf may,-
(a) divide the State Reserve Police Force in groups ;
(b) sub-divide each group * * * * into companies, and each company into platoons ;
(c) post any group, * * company or platoon at such places as the State Government or the officer empowered by it in this behalf may deem fit.