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(h) such other matters as may be necessary and expedient for preventing abuse or neglect of duty, and for rendering the police force efficient in the discharge of its duties, and for carrying out the objects of this Ordinance.
(2) The power to make regulations providing for discipline and punishments shall include and be deemed always to have included power to make regulations providing for appropriate tribunals to inquire into disciplinary offences by police officers other than gazetted police officers, for suspension of punishment awarded, for the review of an appeal from the findings and awards of such tribunals, for appeals against the award of the Commissioner, for limiting the powers of punishment exercisable by any appropriate tribunal, for the seizure and detention of any property reasonably suspected to be the property of a police officer which is required or likely to be required for the purposes of investigating a disciplinary offence and for the subsequent disposal, whether by sale or otherwise, of any property so seized and detained, for the forfeiture of any property admitted as an exhibit in any disciplinary proceedings and for the subsequent disposal, whether by sale or otherwise, of any property so admitted and generally for the procedure to be followed in cases where a police officer other than a gazetted police officer is alleged to have committed any of the disciplinary offences specified in the regulations. (Added 29 of 1950, s. 14. Amended 42 of 1977, s. 12 and 12 of 1982, s. 11)
(3) Whenever the Governor in Council is satisfied that it is equitable that any regulation made under this section should have retrospective effect in order to confer a benefit upon or remove a disability attaching to any person, that regulation may be given retrospective effect for that purpose:
Provided that no such regulation shall have retrospective effect unless it has received the prior approval of the Legislative Council signified by resolution.
(4) Every regulation made under this section shall be published in the Gazette.
46. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Commissioner may from time to time make such orders as he thinks expedient to enable him to administer the police force, render the police force efficient in the discharge of its duties and for carrying out the objects and provisions of this Ordinance, and in addition, such orders may provide for any of the matters specified in section 45.
(2) Any orders made under this section shall be called "police general orders" and shall not be inconsistent with this Ordinance or any regulations under section 45.
(Replaced 42 of 1977, s. 13)
Police general orders.
Headquarter orders.
47. The Commissioner may issue orders of a routine nature to be called "headquarter orders" for the control, direction and orders.