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Power to remove difficulties. SCHEDULE I. SCHEDULE II. SCHEDULE III. SCHEDULE IV. * * * * STATEMENTS OF OBJECTS AND REASONS I Act 4 of 1964.- At present in the different Areas of the State there are different laws for the regulation of police force, the maintenance of public order and allied matters and also for the prevention of gambling. It is proposed to have one uniform law on these subjects for the entire State. Hence this Bill. The following are the important provisions of the Bill, namely:— (1) provision is made for the appointment of a police officer not below the rank of a Deputy Inspector-General of Police to be the Commissioner of Police for the City of Bangalore or any other area specified in a notification; (2) the administration of the police in a district or part of a district will, under the general control and direction of the District Magistrate, be vested in the Superintendent of Police; (3) the Divisional Commissioner is empowered— (a) to issue directions with respect to the police force in any district within his division which the District Magistrate might issue; (b) to invite the attention of the Inspector-General to defects in the police administration of his division; and 10 (c) to call upon the District Magistrate for reports on the state of crime, the distribution of the police force therein and the arrangements for suppression of crime and disorder and to issue orders thereon; (4) the Commissioner, the Superintendent, the Assistant Superintendent, the Deputy Superintendent, or any magistrate of the first class having jurisdiction in the area, have been empowered to prohibit the continuance of music, sound or noise, for preventing annoyance, disturbance, discomfort, or injury or risk to the public or any persons who dwell or occupy property in the vicinity; (5) the Superintendent or other authorised officer is empower to license the use of loudspeakers, etc.; (6) provision is made for the dispersal from an area, of gangs and bodies of persons, whose movements are likely to cause danger or alarm; for removal from any area of persons about to commit certain offences; and for removal from any area of persons convicted of certain offences; (7) provisions for the prevention of gambling; (8) provisions regarding village police and provisions for the constitution, superintendence, direction and control, etc., of the State Reserve Police Force. (Published in Karnataka Gazette (Extraordinary) Part IV-2A dated 26th July, 1962, at page. 481-482. II Amending Act 13 of 1965.— [By this Act amendments were made to the Code of Criminal Procedure to give effect to the separation of judicial and executive functions of the State. While doing so certain consequential amendments were made to this Act] III Amending Act 7 of 1974.—Government of Karnataka have permitted the Bangalore Turf Club Limited, to introduce the system of “Off-course Betting” through a reciprocal arrangement with the Royal Western India Turf Club Limited, Bombay, from 19th May, 1973. Off-course Betting would help to: (a) eliminate illegal betting; (b) increase the revenue of the State Government as well as that of the Bangalore Turf Club; 11 (c) create employment opportunities and encourage other indirect economic activity; and (d) develop horse breeding in the State.