Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,- (a) "active duty" means- (i) the duty to 5[prevent or] investigate offences involving a breach of peace or danger to life or property and to search for and apprehend persons concerned in such offences or who are so desperate and dangerous as to render their being at large hazardous to the community; (ii) the duty to take all adequate measures for the extinguishing of fires or to prevent damage to person or property on the occasion of such occurrences as fires, floods, earthquakes, enemy action or riots and to restore peace and preserve order on such occasions ; (iii) such other duty as may be specified to be active duty by the State Government or the Inspector-General in a direction issued under section 10; (b) " Commandant " and "Assistant Commandant" mean respectively persons appointed to those offices by the State Government under section 5; (c) " Commissioner of Police " and " Deputy Commissioner " means respectively a Commissioner of Police and a Deputy Commissioner of Police appointed under the Bombay Police Act, 1951; (d) " Follower " means any person appointed to do the work of a cook, mess servant, washerman, cobbler, barber, tailor, sweeper or an orderly in connection with the State Reserve Police Force ; (e) " members of the subordinate ranks" means members of the State Reserve Police Force below the rank of 6[ Battalion Commander or Commander of Head Quarters Wing]; Short title, extent, commencement and application. Bom. LXXIV of