Section 50
Conferment of powers of investigation, etc.
The Indian Antarctic Act, 2022
About this Act
An Act to provide for the national measures for protecting the Antarctic environment and dependent and associated ecosystems and to give effect to the Antarctic Treaty, the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources and to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), for the purposes of this Act, the Central Government
may, by notification, confer on any officer of the Central Government or State Government or
Committee, the power of arrest, investigation, search and seizure and prosecution exercisable by a
police officer under the said Code.
(2) The officers of police shall assist the officer referred to in sub-section (1), in the execution of the provisions of this Act.
(2) The officers of police shall assist the officer referred to in sub-section (1), in the execution of the provisions of this Act.