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(ii) compulsory performance of extra duties or drills;
(iii) such fatigue duties as may be prescribed in the police general orders;
leges;
(iv) temporary deprivation of specified privi-
(v) forfeiture of good conduct allowance. (3) Any non-commissioned officer or constable may appeal against any punishment inflicted under this section to the Commissioner within thirty days from the promulgation of the punishment in routine orders. In every case where an appeal has been lodged the sentence shall be suspended pending the determination of the appeal.
(4) If it shall appear to the commanding officer enquiring into any such offence that the offence is of such an aggravated character as to require a more severe punishment thun that specified in sub-sections (1) and (2) of this section, the person accused may be charged before a magistrate and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceed- ing three months, or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(5) Any non-commissioned officer or constable convicted before a magistrate under this section may, as a result of such conviction, be reduced in rank or dismissed from the police force by a commanding officer.
32. (1) The Commissioner may punish any inspector for any of the offences specified in sub-section (1) of section 31 by reprimand, severe reprimand, with or without deferment or stoppage of increment or forfeiture of not more than one month's pay.
(2) Any such inspector aggrieved by such punishment may within thirty days from the promulgation of the punish- ment in headquarter orders appeal to the Governor.
(3) If it shall appear to the Commissioner that the offence is of such an aggravated character as to require more severe punishment than that specified in sub-section (1) of this section the inspector accused may be charged before a magistrate and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(4) Any inspector convicted before a magistrate under this section may, as a result of such conviction, be reduced in rank or dismissed from the police force by the Com- missioner unless the conviction is reversed on appeal.
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33. Any police officer who threatens or insults another ing or officer of senior or equal rank when such other officer is on insulting duty or when such threat or insult relates to or is consequent on officer of the discharge of duty by the officer so threatened or insulted, senior or shall be liable on conviction before a magistrate to a fine not a rank. exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.
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34. (1) Any non-commissioned officer or constable Reduction convicted under the provisions of section 29, sub-section (4) after com of section 31 or section 35 or convicted under the provisions viction. of any other law of an offence punishable with imprisonment may, unless the conviction is reversed on appeal, be reduced in rank or dismissed from the police force and in case of dismissal any arrears of pay due to him may be forfeited by order of the Commissioner,
(2) Any non-commissioned officer dismissed from the police force in accordance with the provisions of sub- section (1) of this section shall be reduced to the ranks before dismissal.
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35. (1) Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed Police to exempt any police officer from being proceeded against by pled the ordinary course of law when accused of any offence from
ordinary punishable under any other ordinance or law.
Procesa of law.
(2) No police officer who has been acquitted by a magistrate or the Court of any crime or offence shall be tried departmentally on the same charge.
(3) Any sentence of imprisonment passed upon any constable for any offence under this Ordinance may be carried out in a police cell or in a place set aside as a prison under section 2 of the Prisons Ordinance, 1932. A sentence passed Ordinance upon any person subject to this Ordinance shall be in no respect 2. affected by such person ceasing to be subject to this Ordinance by discharge or otherwise.
(4) Every officer in charge of a prison shall receive into his custody and carry out any sentence of imprisonment passed upon any constable for any offence under this Ordinance upon an order in writing being delivered to him under the band of a magistrate or a gazetted police officer,
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