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

 

Act 54 of 2008 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keyword(s): 

Chennai City Suburban Area, City Police Act 

 

Amendment appended: 22 of 2011



TAMIL  NADU  GOVERNMENT  GAZETTE  EXTRAORDINARY 241

The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly received the assent
of the Governor on the 29th November 2008 and is hereby published for
general information:—

ACT No. 54 OF 2008.
 An Act to extend the provisions of the Chennai City Police Act, 1888 to the

Chennai City Suburban Area.

BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Fifty-ninth
Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be called the Chennai City Police (Extension to the Chennai
City Suburban Area) Act, 2008.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on 18th day of July 2008.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(1) “Chennai City Suburban Area” means the local area comprising the limits of
the police stations specified in the Schedule;

(2) “City Police Act” means the Chennai City Police Act, 1888;

(3) “Government” means the State Government;

(4) “law in force” includes any enactment, Ordinance, regulation, order,
by-law, rule, scheme or notification in force in the whole or in any part of the State of
Tamil Nadu or any instrument having the force of law in the whole or in any part of
the State of Tamil Nadu.

3. (1) With effect on and from the 18th day of July 2008, the City Police Act as
in force immediately before the 18th day of July 2008, shall stand extended to, and shall
be in force, in the Chennai City Suburban Area.

(2) In the City Police Act as extended to the Chennai City Suburban Area—

(a) any reference to the City of Chennai other than the reference in
section 3 shall, by reason of this Act, be construed as a reference to the Chennai City
Suburban Area;

(b) any reference to the Presidency Magistrate shall, by reason of this Act,
be construed as a reference to the Judicial Magistrate;

(c) any reference to the Commissioner shall, by reason of this Act, be construed
as Commissioner of Police for Chennai City Suburban Area with whom the administration
of the Police of the Chennai City Suburban Area shall be vested.

4. (1) Without prejudice to the provisions contained in section 7 of the City Police
Act, the Government may, by notification, and subject to such conditions and limitation
as may be specified therein, empower,—

(a) the Commissioner of Police for Chennai City Suburban Area to exercise
and perform in relation to the Chennai City Suburban Area, the powers and duties of
an Executive Magistrate and of a District Magistrate under such of the provisions of the
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (hereinafter in this section referred to as the said Code)
or of any other law in force relating to matters with respect to which the State Legislature
has power to make laws for the State, as may be specified in the notification;

(b) any officer subordinate to the Commissioner of Police for Chennai City
Suburban Area (not being an Officer below the rank of an Assistant Commissioner of
Police) to exercise and perform in relation to Chennai City Suburban Area as may be
specified in the notification, the powers and duties of Executive Magistrate under such
of the provisions of the said Code or of any other law in force relating to matters with
respect to which the State Legislature has power to make laws for the State, as may
be specified in the notification.

Short title and
commence-
ment.

Definitions.

Tamil Nadu
Act
III of 1888.

Extension of
Tamil Nadu
Act
III of 1888.

Power of
Government
to authorize
Commissioner
of Police for
Chennai City
Suburban
Area and
certain other
Police
Officers in
Chennai City
Suburban
Area to
exercise
powers of
District
Magistrate
and Executive
Magistrate
under the
Code of
Criminal
Procedure,
1973.

Central Act
2 of 1974.



242 TAMIL  NADU  GOVERNMENT  GAZETTE  EXTRAORDINARY

(2) Every officer subordinate to the Commissioner of Police for Chennai City
Suburban Area shall, in the exercise and performance of any powers and duties, which
he is empowered to exercise or perform under sub-section(1), be subject to the general
control of the said Commissioner of Police in the same manner and to the same extent
as an Executive Magistrate appointed under section 20 of the said Code would be subject
to the general control of the District Magistrate appointed under that section.

(3) The Commissioner of Police for Chennai City Suburban Area or any Officer
subordinate to such Commissioner, shall not be subject, in the exercise and performance
of any powers and duties which he is empowered to exercise and perform under
sub-section (1), to the general control of the District Magistrate appointed under section
20 of the said Code.

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.

6. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the City Police Act as extended, the
Commissioner of Police for Chennai City Suburban Area shall, in the exercise of his
functions under the City Police Act as extended, be under the control and direction of
the Director-General of Police for the State of Tamil Nadu subject to any rules that may
be made under sub-section (2).

(2) It shall be competent to the Government to make rules to limit and regulate
the exercise of the powers of, control and direction conferred on, the Director-General
of Police by sub-section (1) in respect of the Commissioner of Police for Chennai City
Suburban Area.

(3) Nothing in this Section shall apply in relation to the powers and functions
which may be exercised or discharged by the Commissioner of Police for Chennai City
Suburban Area under any law as a District Magistrate or an Executive Magistrate.

7. Any reference in the City Police Act as extended by this Act to a law which is
not in force in the Chennai City Suburban Area on the 18th day of July 2008 shall, in
relation to the said area, be construed as a reference to the corresponding law, if any,
in force in the said area.

Police force
functioning in
Chennai City
Suburban
Area
immediately
before the
18th day of
July 2008 to
be deemed
to be police
force
constituted
under the
City Police
Act as
extended.

Control of the
Director
General of
Police over
the
Commissioner
of Police for
Chennai City
Suburban
Area.

Construction
of reference
to laws not in
force in
Chennai City
Suburban
Area.



TAMIL  NADU  GOVERNMENT  GAZETTE  EXTRAORDINARY 243

8. Any reference by whatever form or words in any law in force to any authority
competent on the date immediately preceding the 18th day of July 2008 to exercise any
powers or discharge any functions in the Chennai City Suburban Area shall, where a
corresponding new authority has been constituted by or under the City Police Act as
extended or under this Act to the said area have effect as if it were a reference to that
new authority.

9. For the purpose of facilitating the application, in the Chennai City Suburban Area,
of the City Police Act as extended, any Court or other authority may construe the said
Act with such alteration not affecting the substance as may be necessary or proper to
adapt it to the matter before the Court or other authority.

10. (1) The Government may make rules for carrying out all or any of the purposes
of this Act.

(2) All rules made under this Act shall be published in the Tamil Nadu Government
Gazette, and unless they are expressed to come into force on a particular day, shall
come into force on the day on which they are so published.

(3) All notifications issued under this Act shall, unless they are expressed to come
into force on a particular day, come into force on the day on which they are published.

(4) Every rule made or notification or order issued under this Act shall, as soon
as possible after it is made or issued, be placed on the table of the Legislative Assembly,
and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so placed or the next session, the
Legislative Assembly agrees that the rule or notification or order should not be made
or issued, the rule or notification or order shall thereafter have effect only in such modified
form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so, however, that any such modification
or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under
that rule or notification or order.

11. If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of the City Police Act
as extended by this Act, to the Chennai City Suburban Area, the Government may, as
occasion may require, by order, do anything which appears to them to be necessary
for the purpose of removing the difficulty:

Provided that no order shall be made under this section after the expiry of two
years from the 18th day of July 2008.

12. On the 18th day of July 2008, the local area comprising the limits of police
stations specified in the Schedule shall stand excluded from the City of Chennai for the
purpose of section 3 of the City Police Act.

13. (1) The Chennai City Police (Extension to the Chennai City Suburban Area)
Ordinance, 2008 is hereby repealed.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under
the said Ordinance shall be deemed to have been done or taken under this Act.

Construction
of reference
to authorities
where new
authorities
have been
constituted.

Powers of
courts and
other
authorities
for purposes
of facilitating
application of
the City
Police Act.

Power to
make rules.

Power to
remove
difficulties.

Exclusion of
area from
Chennai
City.

Repeal and
saving.

Tamil Nadu
Ordinance
2 of 2008.



244 TAMIL  NADU  GOVERNMENT  GAZETTE  EXTRAORDINARY

THE SCHEDULE

[See section 2 (1)]

POLICE STATIONS

1 St. Thomas Mount Police Station

2 Meenambakkam Police Station

3 Pallavaram Police Station

4 Chrompet Police Station

5 Shankar Nagar Police Station

6 Tambaram Police Station

7 Madipakkam Police Station

8 Palavanthangal Police Station

9 Adambakkam Police Station

10 Pallikaranai Police Station

11 Chitlapakkam Police Station

12 Peerkankaranai Police Station

13 Selaiyur Police Station

14 Airport Police Station

15 Nandambakkam Police Station

16 Poonamallee Police Station

17 Sri Ramachandra Medical College Hospital Police Station

18 Kunrathur Police Station

19 Mangadu Police Station

20 Ambathur Police Station

21 Ambathur Estate Police Station

22 Korattur Police Station

23 Maduravoyal Police Station

24 Avadi Police Station

25 Avadi Tank Factory Police Station

26 Pattabiram Police Station

27 Muthapudupet Police Station

28 Tiruninravur Police Station

29 Nazarethpet Police Station

30 Thirumullaivoyal Police Station

31 Thiruverkadu Police Station

32 Madhavaram Police Station

33 Madhavaram Milk Colony Police Station

34 Redhills Police Station



TAMIL  NADU  GOVERNMENT  GAZETTE  EXTRAORDINARY 245

35 Ennore Police Station

36 Manali Police Station

37 Manali New Town Police Station

38 Sathangadu Police Station

39 Puzhal Police Station

(By order of the Governor)

S. DHEENADHAYALAN,
Secretary to Government,

Law Department.



TAMIL  NADU  GOVERNMENT  GAZETTE  EXTRAORDINARY 125

The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly received the assent of
the Governor on the  24th September 2011 and is hereby published for general
information:—

ACT  No. 22 of 2011.

An Act to repeal the Chennai City Police (Extension to the Chennai City
Suburban Area) Act, 2008.

BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the
Sixty-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be called the Chennai City Police (Extension to the Chennai
City Suburban Area) Repeal Act, 2011.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 24th August 2011.

2.  The Chennai City Police (Extension to the Chennai City Suburban Area) Act,
2008 (hereinafter referred to as the repealed  Act) is hereby repealed.

3. (1) With effect on and from the 24th day of August 2011, the local area
comprising the limits of the police stations specified in the Schedule to the repealed
Act shall stand transferred and become part and parcel of the City of Chennai as
notified under the Chennai City Police Act, 1888 (Tamil Nadu Act III of 1888).

(2) The police force functioning under the repealed Act immediately before
the 24th day of August 2011 (hereinafter in this section referred to as the existing
police force) shall, on the 24th  day of August 2011, be deemed to be the police
force constituted under the Chennai City Police Act, 1888 (Tamil Nadu Act III of
1888) and every member of the existing police force holding the office immediately
before the 24th day of August 2011 shall be deemed to be appointed on the 24th
day of August 2011 as members of the police force for the City of Chennai.

(3) The repeal of the repealed Act shall not affect,—

(a) all proceedings (including by way of investigations) pending before any
police officer of the existing police force immediately before the 24th day of August
2011, shall be deemed to be proceedings pending before him in his capacity as
the holder of the office to which he is appointed under the repealed Act and shall
be dealt with accordingly.

(b) Where any power or function which may be exercised or discharged
under any law by the Commissioner of Police or other police officer, as the case
may be, for Chennai City Suburban Area in the capacity of an Executive Magistrate
under the repealed Act shall stand transferred to the Commissioner of Police for
Chennai 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.

Short title and
commence-
ment.

Tamil Nadu
Act 54
of 2008.

Repeal.

Transfer of
area and
saving.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE DIRECTOR OF STATIONERY AND PRINTING, CHENNAI
ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADU

(By order of the Governor)

G. JAYACHANDRAN,
Secretary to Government,

Law Department.