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Amendment

of Ordinance No. 11 of 1900, s. 17A.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 11 of 1900, ss. 19, 20 and 20A, and insertion of new s. 19.

Amendment

of Ordinance

No. 11 of 1900, s. 23.

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7. Section 17A of the Police Force Ordinance, 1900, is amended by the insertion of the following words at the beginning thereof :-

"The Inspector General of Police, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Divisional Super- intendents, Superintendents, Assistant Super- mtendents and Probationers, and ".

8. Sections 19, 20 and 20A of the Police Force Ordi- nance, 1900, are repealed and the following section is inserted immediately after section 18:-

Regulations.

19.-(1) Subject to the provisions of section 17, it shall be lawful for the Inspector General of Police to make such regulations as he may consider necessary for-

(a) the general government and discipline

of the force;

(b) regulating the internal economy of

the force; and

(e) carrying out the daily routine of the

force.

(2) All regulations made under this section shall be published by the Inspector General of Police in the form of Police General Orders and shall come into effect on the date of such publication, unless some other date be specified in any such order.

(3) It shall not be necessary to publish in the Gazette any regulations made under this section.

(4) All regulations made under this section shall be circulated to the members of the Executive Council, and it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to rescind or amend

in any manuer any such regulation. Any such rescission or amendment shall be published in the same manner as the regulation rescinded or amended was published, and the regulation shall be deemed to be rescinded or amended, as the case may be, as from and including the date of the publication of the rescission or amend- ment, unless some other date is specified in such publication.

(5) In any proceedings, any regulation made under this section may be proved by the production of a copy of the Police General Orders in which such regulation was published, certified under the hand of the Inspector General of Police, Deputy Inspector General of Police or a Divisional Superintendent, and upon the production of any such certified copy it shall, until the contrary be proved, be pre- sumed that such regulation was duly made and was not disallowed.

9. Section 23 of the Police Force Ordinance, 1900, is amended as follows:-

(a) the words “ Captain Superintendent or any

Deputy Superintendent in the seventh and eighth lines of sub-section (1) are repealed and the words "Inspector General of Police, Deputy Inspector General of Police or any Divisional Superintendent" are substituted therefor;

(b) the words "Superintendent or" are inserted immediately before the words "Assistant Superintendent" in the seventh line of sub- section (2);

(c) the words "Captain Superintendent or for any Deputy Superintendent in the sixth and seventh lines of sub-section (3) are repealed and the words "Inspector General of Police,