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Police force functioning in cities of Avadi and Tambaram immediately before date of publication of this Act to be deemed to be police force constituted under City Police Act as extended.— (1) The police force functioning in the city of Avadi and in the city of Tambaram, immediately before the date of publication of this Act (hereinafter in this section referred to as the existing police force) shall, on the date of publication of this Act, be deemed to be the police force constituted for the city of Avadi or the city of Tambaram, as the case may be, under the City Police Act as extended, by this Act and every member of the existing police force holding office immediately before the date of publication of this Act shall be deemed to be appointed on such date of publication, as members of the police force for the city of Avadi or the city of Tambaram, as the case may be. (2) All proceedings (including proceedings by way of investigations) pending before any police officer of the existing police force immediately before the date of publication of this Act, shall on the date of publication of this Act, be deemed to be proceedings pending before him in his capacity as the holder of the office to which he is deemed to be appointed under sub-section (1) and shall be dealt with accordingly. (3) Where any power or function which may be exercised or discharged under any law by a District Magistrate or an Executive Magistrate immediately before the date of publication of this Act has been conferred on the Commissioner of Police for Avadi or the Commissioner of Police for Tambaram or any other police officer by or under the City Police Act as extended, all proceedings in relation to, or arising from, the exercise of such power or the discharge of such function pending immediately before such conferment before the District Magistrate or Executive Magistrate, as the case may be, shall on the conferment of such power or function on the Commissioner of Police for Avadi or the Commissioner of Police for Tambaram or other police officer, stand transferred to the Commissioner of Police for Avadi or the Commissioner of Police for Tambaram, or other police officer, as the case may be, and the officer to whom such proceedings stand so transferred shall either proceed de novo or from the stage of such transfer. 6.Control of Director General of Police over Commissioner of Police for Avadi and Tambaram. – (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the City Police Act as extended, the Commissioner of Police for Avadi and the Commissioner of Police for Tambaram shall, in exercise of their functions under the City Police Act as extended, be under the control and direction of the Director-General of Police for the State, subject to any rules that may be made under sub-section (2). (2) It shall be competent to the Government to make rules to limit and regulate the exercise of the powers of control and direction conferred on the Director-General of Police by subsection (1) in respect of the Commissioner of Police for Avadi and the Commissioner of Police for Tambaram. (3) Nothing in this section shall apply in relation to the powers and functions which may be exercised or discharged by the Commissioner of Police for Avadi or the Commissioner of Police for Tambaram, as the case may be, under any law as a District Magistrate or an Executive Magistrate.