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(1) Every police officer appointed as aforesaid shall be given at the time of appointment a certificate in the form annexed to this Act. Such certificate shall bear the seal of the 13Director-General of District Police or any other officer appointed by him for this work. The award of such certificate shall have the effect to vest the holder thereof with the powers, functions and privileges of a Police officer. (2) Such certificate shall cease to have effect when the person named therein ceases, for any reason, to be a police officer, and in such case, the certificate shall be immediately surrendered, to the officer empowered to take back the same.