The Police Forces (Restriction Of Rights) Act 1966
(33 of 1966)
Statement of Objects and Reasons :
Article 33 of the Constitution provides that Parliament may by law determine to what extent any of the rights conferred by Part III of the Constitution shall, in their application to the members of the Armed Force or the Forces charged with the maintenance of public order, be restricted or abrogated so as to ensure the proper discharge of their duties and the maintenance of discipline among them. In the Army Act, 1950, the Air Force Act, 1950, and the Navy Act, 1957, provision has been made by virtue of the said Article 33 for the restriction or abrogation of the rights conferred by Part III of the Constitution in their application to the members of the Armed Forces. No such provision has so far been made by Parliament by law in regard to the Forces charged with the maintenance of public order. It is felt that in order to ensure the proper discharge of their duties and the maintenance of discipline among them, the members of the Force charged with the maintenance of public order should not, without the express sanction of the Central Government form any trade union, labour union or any political association or communicate with the press or publish or cause to be published anything except where such communication or publication is in the bona fide discharge of their duties or is of purely literary, artistic or scientific character. It is also felt that no member of a police force should participate in, or address any meeting or take part in any demonstration organised by anybody of persons for any political purposes. The Bill is intended to achieve the aforesaid objects.
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An Act to provide for the restriction of certain rights conferred by Part III of the Constitution in their application to the members of the Forces charged with the maintenance of public order so as to ensure the proper discharge of their duties and the maintenance of discipline among them.
Be it enacted by Parliament in the Seventeenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:
Section 1 :
Short title, extent and commencement :
(1) This Act may be called The Police Forces (Restriction of Rights) Act , 1966.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3) It shall come into force on such 1.()date as may be appointed in this behalf by notification in the Official Gazette,
(a) in a 2.()Union territory, by the Central Government; and
(b) in a 3.()State, by the Government of that State:
Provided that different dates may be appointed by the Central Government for different Union territories.
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1. 1. 3.12.1966, vide notification No. G.S.R. 1848, dated 3rd December, 1966, in respect of the Union territory of Delhi, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3(i).
2. 1.8.1967, vide notification No. S.O. 1122(E), dated 20th July, 1967, in respect of the Union territories of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3(ii).
3. 4.9.1967, vide Panjab Govt. notification No. S.O. 67 C. A. 33/66/S. 1/67, dated 2nd, September, 1967, in respect of the State of Panjab, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary.
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