Abstract:
The present compilation supersedes the publication of the Police
Regulations, Bengal, issued in 1927.. It incorporates changes in the
rules either necessitated by the Government of India Act, 1935, or
effected for other reasons. 2. The present publication includes— •
(a) Rules or Orders made by the Governor under section 241
of the Government of India Act, 1'935,. and undei
sections 2, 3 *and 7 of .Police Act (V of 1861): the
notifications and orders of Qovernment, under which
such rules are made, are reproduced after this Preface
before the Table of Cohfeits; and
(ft) Rules made by the Inspector-General of Police under
section 12 of the, Police Act (V of 1861): all these have received the approval of Government which, in respect
of certain rules, has been formally conveyed by
communications also reproduced after this Preface before
the Table of Contents. 3. Rules in jh is' compilation m^de by Government or forming
the subject of th^ formal communication of approval referred* to' above
are indicated in the Regulations by the marginal citation of the
statutory provision under which they are made or approved. Such
Regulations are statutory rules and have the force of law,* All rules
in this compilation, however, whether or not they have statutory,
force, are equally binding on all police officers’ as well as on all othei
officers of the Crown to whom' they refer.
