Police Regulations Bengal 1943, Vol. I

Abstract

The present compilation supersedes the publication of the Police Regulations, Bengal, issued in 1927.. It incorporates changes in the rules either necessitated by the Government of India Act, 1935, or effected for other reasons. 2. The present publication includes— • (a) Rules or Orders made by the Governor under section 241 of the Government of India Act, 1'935,. and undei sections 2, 3 *and 7 of .Police Act (V of 1861): the notifications and orders of Qovernment, under which such rules are made, are reproduced after this Preface before the Table of Cohfeits; and (ft) Rules made by the Inspector-General of Police under section 12 of the, Police Act (V of 1861): all these have received the approval of Government which, in respect of certain rules, has been formally conveyed by communications also reproduced after this Preface before the Table of Contents. 3. Rules in jh is' compilation m^de by Government or forming the subject of th^ formal communication of approval referred* to' above are indicated in the Regulations by the marginal citation of the statutory provision under which they are made or approved. Such Regulations are statutory rules and have the force of law,* All rules in this compilation, however, whether or not they have statutory, force, are equally binding on all police officers’ as well as on all othei officers of the Crown to whom' they refer.