Act Number: 22

Act Name: The Police (Incitement to Disaffection) Act,1922

Year: 1922

Enactment Date: 1922-10-05

Long Title: Act to provide a penalty for spreading disaffection among the police and for kindred offences

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 5: Sanction to trial of offences by Subordinate Courts.
    No Court shall proceed to the trial of any offence under this Act except with the previous sanction, or on the complaint, of the District Magistrate or, in the case of a Presidency-town, 1[* * *] of the Commissioner of Police.
Notes:
    1. The words “or the town of Rangoon” omitted by the A.O. 1937.
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