Every police-officer who shall be guilty of any violation of duty or wilful breach or neglect of any rule or regulation or lawful order made by competent authority, or who shall withdraw from the duties of his office without permission, 1 [or without having given previous notice for the period of two months,] 2 [or who, being absent on leave, shall fail, without reasonable cause, to report himself for duty on the expiration of such leave,] or who shall engage without authority in any employment other than his police-duty, or who shall be guilty of cowardice, or who shall offer any unwarrantable personal violence to any person in his custody, shall be liable, on conviction before a Magistrate, to a penalty not exceeding three months pay, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding three months, or to both.
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1. These words shall be deemed to have been rep. so long as the Police (Resignation of Office) Ordinance, 1942 (11 of 1942), remains in force: see s. 2 and the Schedule of that Ordinance.
2. Ins. by Act 8 of 1895, s. 9.
Section 26 Magistrate may detain property and issue proclamation
Section 27 Confiscation of property if no claimant appears
Section 28 Persons refusing to deliver up certificate, etc., on ceasing to be police-officers
Section 29 Penalties for neglect of duty, etc
Section 30 Regulation of public assemblies and processions and licensing of the same
Section 30A Powers with regard to assemblies and processions violating conditions of license
Section 31 Police to keep order in public roads, etc
Section 32 Penalty for disobeying orders issued under last three sections, etc
Section 33 Saving of control of Magistrate of district