State Act

The Chennai City Police (Extension to the Chennai City Suburban Area) Act, 2008 Act 54 of 2008

This Act was repealed on 24 August 2011 by the Chennai City Police (Extension to the Chennai City Suburban Area) Repeal Act, 2011 (Tamil Nadu Act 22 of 2011), s.2; it may still apply to matters that began before then.

5. (1) The police force functioning in the Chennai City Suburban Area immediately before the 18th day of July 2008 (hereinafter in this Section referred to as the existing police force) shall, on the 18th day of July 2008, be deemed to be the police force constituted for the Chennai City Suburban Area under the City Police Act as extended, by this Act and every member of the existing police force holding the office immediately before the 18th day of July 2008 shall be deemed to be appointed on the 18th day of July 2008 as members of the police force for the Chennai City Suburban Area. (2) All proceedings (including proceedings by way of investigations) pending before any police officer of the existing police force immediately before the 18th day of July 2008, shall on the 18th day of July 2008 be deemed to be proceedings pending before him in his capacity as the holder of the office to which he is appointed under sub-section (1) and shall be dealt with accordingly. (3) Where any power or function which may be exercised or discharged under any law by a District Magistrate or an Executive Magistrate immediately before the 18th day of July 2008 has been conferred on the Commissioner of Police or any other Police Officer by or under the City Police Act as extended, all proceedings in relation to, or arising from, the exercise of such power or the discharge of such function pending immediately before such conferment before the District Magistrate, or Executive Magistrate, as the case may be, shall on the conferment of such power or function, on the Commissioner of Police or other police officer, stand transferred to the Commissioner of Police for Chennai City Suburban Area or other Police Officer, as the case may be, and the officer to whom such proceedings stand so transferred shall either proceed de novo or from the stage of such transfer.