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(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Madras District Police Act, 1859 (24 of 1859), the Indian Police Act, 1861 (5 of 1861), the Bombay District Police Act, 1890 (Bom. Act 4 of 1890) or any Act relating to the Police in any presidency-town, the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, create a special police-district embracing parts of two or more [States], and extend every part of the said district the powers and jurisdiction of members of a police-force belonging to [a State] specified in the notification. (2) Subject to any orders which the Central Government may make in this behalf, members of the said Police-Force shall have, within every part of any [State] of which any part is included in the said district, the powers, duties, privileges and liabilities which, as police officers, they have in their own [State]. (3) Any member of the police-force whom the Central Government shall generally or specially empower to act under this sub-section may, subject to any orders which the Central Government may make in this behalf, exercise within any [State] any part of which is included in the said district any of the powers of the officer-in-charge of a police station in that [State], and when so exercising any such powers, shall, subject to any such order as aforesaid, be deemed to be an officer-in-charge of a police-station discharging the functions of such an officer within the limits of his station. (4) A part of a [State] included in the said district shall not by reason of that inclusion cease, for the purposes of any enactment relating to police, to be part of the [State].] Subs. by Act 12 of 1891 and by the A.O. 1937, for section 2. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Provinces". Subs. by the A.C.A.O. 1948, for "any part of British India". Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Province".