Police Pondicherry Amendment Act 1966
Police Pondicherry Amendment Act 1966
A!3HANGE&lENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
2.
Amendment of section 1.
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ACT, 1966.
(Act No. 6 of 1966)
18th February, 1966.
AN ACT
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of the principal 'A&, 'the-fdllowing {ections shall be i n s e h d ,
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"8-A. Unlawful assemption of police functions, personation etc.-Any person wha(a) unlawfully assumes any function assigned to, or
power conferred on, a police officer, or
(b) has in his possession, without any lawful excuse,
any distinctive article of any dress required to be worn
exclusively by a police officer, or
(c) puts on any dress with the intention of being taken
as a police officer, or
id) personates a 2olice officer,
shall, in addition to any other punishment to which h e may
be liable for any ol'fence committed by him under such assumed character, be punishable with imprisonment for a term
which may extend- to six months or with fine or with both.
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Explanation.-Nothing
in this section shall exempt any
police officer or any member of Fire Services or fire-brigade
from liability to damages on account of any acts done by him
without reasonable cause.
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to commit an offence, or
(ii) having his face covered or otherwise
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Affixing
bills or<defacing walls.-Without the con. (vii)
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sent of the o ~ & ror occupier, 'in any manner affixes or
causes to be affixed any bill, notice, document, paper OT other
thing upon any public place or upon any building, monument, statue, effigy, post, wall, fence, tree or other erection
therein or in any manner disfigures, writes upon or otherwise
marks, or causes to be defaced, disfigured, written upon or
otherwise marked any such public place or any such building, monument, statue, effigy, wall, fence, post, tree or
(viii) Begging.-Begs or applies for alms, or exposes or
exhibits any sore, wound, bodily ailment or deformity with
the object of exciting charity or extorting alms;
(ix) Using indecent or threatening languages.-Uses any
indecent, threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaves
in a threatening or insulting manner or posts up or affixes
or exhibits any indecent, threatening, abusive or insulting
paper or drawing with intent to provoke a breach of peace
or whereby a breach of the peace may be occasioned ;
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from .within .any:house on building o~ not, shall be. punishable with imprisonment for a term wbicb may extend to one
month, or with fine which may extend to fifty rupees, or
with both.]
34-C!. Penalty for committing nuisance in public placeWhoever in or by the side of or near to any public
place, commits a nuisance by easing himself or passing
urine, and whoever having the care or custody of any child
~ n d e rseven years of age omits to prevent such child cominitting a nuisance by eesing himself or passing urine, shall
be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.
34-D. Penalty for lighting bonfire, burning straw, discharging fire-arm etc., in or near any public place.- (I) Whoever except at such times and places as the Inspector-General
of Police or any person authorised in this behalf by him may
allow, in or near any public place lights any bonfire, sets
fire to or burns anx, straw or other matter, discharges any
fire-arm or air-gun, lets off or discharges any fire-work, or
sends up any fire-balloon or permits such act to be done in
premises over which he has control, shall be punishable with
fine which may extend to fifty rupees.
(2) In the a e n t ol any such act is referred to in subsection (I), being done within any private premises, the
person having the immediate control of such premises shall
be deemed to have permitted the act, unless he can prove
that the act- w& eornmitted: Citkou'L: his knowledge.
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-or vessel, shall be punishable with imprisonmeilt for a term
which may extend to one month or with. fine which may
extend to fifty rupees or with both.
of sub-section
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(I), shall be punishable Wth fine which may
extend to fifty rupees for every such offence.
(3) A pawnbroker, dealer or worker to whom any such
article as is referred to in sub-seetion (1) is offered may
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(3) A court trying any offence punishable under subsection (1) may, without prejudice to any other or further
order or orders that may, in its opinion, be passed in the
case, direct the forfeiture of any ticket which may have
been seized under sub-section (2).
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Explanation.-In
this section,-
(a) "entertainment" means any exhibition, performance, amusement, game or spog to which- persons are
admitted on production of tickets ; and
(b) "proprietor" in relation to any entertainment,
includes any person responsible for the management of
such entertainment".]
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breach of conditions of licences.(1) For any breach of any of the conditions of a licence
granted under this Act, the offender shall be liable on conviction to fine, not exceeding one hundred rupees and such
fine may be recovered from the person licensed, notwithstanding that such breach may have been owing to the
default or carelessness of his servant or agent i n charge of
the shop or place.
35-C. Penalty for
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