Act Number: 34

Act Name: The Special Protection Group Act, 1988

Year: 1988

Enactment Date: 1988-06-02

Long Title: An Act to provide for the constitution and regulation of an armed force of the Union for providing proximate security to the Prime Minister of India and the former Prime Ministers of India and members of their immediate families and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of Internal Security

Section 16: Power to make rules.
    (1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the provisions of this Act.
     (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:—
         (a) the manner in which the Group shall be constituted and the terms and conditions of service of its members under sub-section (2) of section 4;
         (b) the authorities to be prescribed under section 8, sub-section (1) of section 10 and section 11;
         (c) the nature of the communication or publication under clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 10;
         (d) the purposes, other than political purposes, for which a person subject to this Act shall not participate in, or address, any meeting or take part in any demonstration under sub-section (2) of section 10;
         (e) the persons who shall be members of the Board under sub-section (2) of section 12;
         (f) any other matter which has to be, or may be, prescribed.
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