Section 7: Appointment, dismissal, etc., of inferior officers.

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

[[Subject to the provisions of Article 311 of the Constitution, and to such rules as the [State Government] may from time to time make under this Act, the Inspector-General, Deputy Inspectors-General, Assistant Inspector-General and District Superintendents of Police may at any time dismiss, suspend or reduce any police-officer of the subordinate ranks] whom they shall think remiss or negligent in the discharge of his duty, or unfit for the same;

[or may award any one or more of the following punishments to any police-officer [of the subordinate ranks] who shall discharge his duty in a careless or negligent manner, or who by any act of his own shall render himself unfit for the discharge thereof, namely: --

(a) fine to any amount not exceeding one months pay;

(b) confinement to quarters for a term not exceeding fifteen days, with or without punishmentdrill, extra guard, fatigue or other duty;

(d) removal from any office of distinction or special emolument.]

Where this provision sits

Act	The Police Act, 1861
Section	7
Marginal note	Appointment, dismissal, etc., of inferior officers.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source
Judgments citing it	4

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. . Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Provincial Government" which had been subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "L.G.".
substituted. . Subs., ibid., for certain words.
substituted. . Subs. by the A.O. 1950 (as amended by C.O. 29), for "Subject to such rules".
substituted, Act 8 of 1895. . Subs. by Act 8 of 1895, s. 2, for certain words.v 5. . Ins. by the A.O. 1937.
other, U.P. Act 2 of 1944. . For clause (e), applicable to certain areas in the U.P., see U.P. Act 2 of 1944.

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