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Section 4: Inspector-General of Police, etc.

The Police Act, 1861Central Act · Act 5 of 1861

The administration of the police throughout the general police district shall be vested in an officer to be styled the Inspector-General of Police, and in such Deputy Inspectors-General and Assistant Inspectors-General as to the [State Government] shall been seem fit.

The administration of the police throughout the local jurisdiction of the Magistrate of the district shall, under the general control and direction of such Magistrate, be vested in a District Superintendent and such Assistant District Superintendents as the [State Government] shall consider necessary.

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Where this provision sits

ActThe Police Act, 1861
Section4
Marginal noteInspector-General of Police, etc.
JurisdictionCentral
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.

  • other, Ben. 4 of 1866. . In the town and suburbs of Calcutta, the administration of the police vests in the "Commissioner of Police", See s. 3 of the Calcutta Police Act, 1866 (Ben. 4 of 1866).
  • substituted. . Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Provincial Government" which had been subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "L.G.".
  • omitted. . Certain words omitted by the A.O. 1937.

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