The West Bengal Security Act, 1948

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ET IN DIEU DROIT de Government of West Bengal "Judicial and Legislative (Legislative) Department West Bengal Act III of 1948 The West Bengal Security :Act Superintendent, Government Printing West Bengal Government Press, Alipore, West Bengal 1948 Price-Indian, annas 8; English, 10d. r West Bengal Act III of 1948 THE WEST BENGAL SECURITY ACT, 1948, CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Preliminary. SECTION. 1. Short title, extent and commencement. 2. Definitions. 3. Effect of the provisions of the Act when inconsistent with other law. 4. Saving. 5. Non-compliance with the provisions of this Act or any orders made thereunder. CHAPTER II. Prevention of Subversive Acts. $6. Sabotage. 7. Prohibition of subversive acts, publications and communications. 8. Proscription, etc., of certain documents. 9. < Power to impose censorship. - CHAPTER ILOR Public Safety and Order. 10. Punishment for carrying or possessing 11. Definition of looting. - 12. Use of force to stop looting. 13. Curfew. non corrosive substance or liquids 2 14. Amendment of sections 127 and 12S of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898. 15. Control of processions, meetings, etc. 16. Power to make orders restricting the movements or actions .of or detaining cer persons. - 17. Duration of orders made under section 16. 18 .- Grounds of order of detention to be disclosed to person affected by the order. 19. Control of use of loudspeakers, megaphones, etc. 20. Unlawful«drilling. 21. Unofficial uniforms, etc. . - 22. Powers ot require the assistance of certain persons. CHAPTER IV. Miscellaneous Provisions. 4 . 23. Power to obtain information. 24. False statement. 25. Requisitioning of property. 26. Publication and service of notices. CHAPTER V. Supplementary and Procedural. 27. Attempts, etc., to contravene the provisions of the Act. 28. Special provision for searches. 29. General power of arrest without warrant. 30. Powers of arrest and detention. 31. Cognizance of contraventions of the provisions of the Act or orders made thereun 32. Power to give effect to orders, etc. '33. Saving as to orders. 34. Protection of action taken under the Act. 35: Delegation of powers and duties of the Provincial Government, 36. Power to make rules. 37. Saving and repeal. West Bengal Act III of 1948 THE WEST BENGAL SECURITY ACT, 1948. [Passed by the West Bengal Legislature.] [Assent of the Governor-General was first published in the Calcutta Gazette, Extraordinary, of the 13th March, 1948.] 1 An Act to make special provision for the maintenance of. public order by. the. prevention of illegal acquisition, possession or use of arms, the suppression of subversive movements endangering communal harmony or the safety or stability of the Province, the suppression of goondas and for maintaining supplies and services er Correction slips for the West Bengal Security Act, 1948 (West Ben. Act III of 1948). * Pages 1, 2- In section 2,- (1) for clause (1), substitute the following clause, namely : - \"(7) 'essential commodity' means food, - water,' fuel, light or power and includes such other thing. - as may be declared by the Provincial Govern- ment by notification to be essential for the life of the community;"'; --- "mer-WHOles Of West Bengal. 1. rextent, com- mence- ment (3) The Provincial Government may, by notification, direct that all or any of the provisions of this Act shall come and into force in the wholes ai any part of the province of West duration. . Bengal on such date as may be specified in the notification and may, by like notification, direct that the said provisions or any of them shall cease to be in force in the said province or part, as the case may be, on such date as may be specified in the notification. (4) It shall, in the first instance, remain in force for a period of one year; provided that if a resolution in that behalf is, before the date on which under this sub-section it would otherwise have ceased to operate, passed by the Provincial Legislature, it shall continue in force for a further perio

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