Bare ActsThe Gujarat Police Act, 1951.

Section 12

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Clause (SA) \Vhich \Vas deleted by the Gujarat Adaptation of La\vs (State and Concurrent Subjects) Order, 1960 was inserted by Guj. 5of1989, s. 2(1). 1951 : Born. XXII) Gujarat Police Act, 1951 (6) "Inspector General", "Additional Inspector General", "Commissioner" "Deputy Inspector General", "Deputy Commissioner", "Assistant Commissioner" "District Superintendent", "Additional Superintendent", "Assistant Superintendent" and "Deputy Superintendent" means respectively the Inspector General of Police, the Additional Inspector General of Police, a Commissioner of Police including an Additional Commissioner of Police, a Deputy Inspector General Police, a Deputy Commissioner of Police and Assistant Commissioner of Police, a District Superintendent of Police 1 [including a Superintendent of Police appointed under section 8A or 22A ], an Additional Superintendent of Police, an Assistant Superintendent of Police and a Deputy Superintendent of Police appointed or deemed to be appointed under this Act; 2[(6A) "Lok Raksha!(' means a police officer of the lowest grade appointed in accordance with the provisions of section 5]. 3((7) "municipality" means a municipality or municipal borough established under any law for the time being in force in any part of the State, but does not include a municipal Corporation;] '[ * * * * * l (8) "place" includes a building, a tent, a booth or other erection, whether permanent or temporary, or any area whether enclosed or open; (9) "place of public amusement" means any place where music, singing, dancing, or any diversion or game, or the means or carrying on the same, is provided and to which the public are admitted either on payment of money or with the intention that money may be collected from those admitted and includes a race course, circus, theatre music hall, billiard room, bagatelle room, gymnasium, fencing school, swinJIDing pool or dancing hall; '[(10) "place of public entertainment" means a boarding-house, lodging house or residential hotel and includes any eating house in which any kind of liquor or intoxicating drug is supplied (such as a tavern, a wine shop, a beer shop or a spirit, arrack, toddy, ganja, bhang or opium shop) to the public for consumption in or near such place]; ( 11) "Police officer" means any member of the police force appointed or deemed to be appointed under this Act, and includes a special or an additional Police Officer appointed under section 21 or 22; (12) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules; (13) "public place" includes the foreshore, the precincts of every public building or monument, and all places accessible to the public drawing water, washing or bathing or for the purpose of recreation; '[ * * * * * *] I. These words, figures and letters were inserted by Bom. 34of1959, s. 5(3).

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