The Chennai City Police (Extension to the City of Tiruppur) Act, 2012, Act 35 of 2012

THE CHENNAI CITY POLICE (EXTENSION TO THE CITY OF TIRUPPUR) ACT, 2012 

ACT NO. 35 OF 2012 

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 

Sections 

1. Short title and commencement.  

2. Definitions.  

3. Extension of Tamil Nadu Act III of 1888. 

4. Power of Government to authorise Commissioner of Police for the City of Tiruppur 

and certain other Police officers in the City of Tiruppur to exercise powers of District 

Magistrate and Executive Magistrate under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.  

5. Police force functioning in the City of Tiruppur immediately before the appointed day 

to be deemed to be police force constituted under the City Police Act as extended.  

6. Control of the Director-General of Police over the Commissioner of Police for 

Tiruppur.  

7. Construction of reference to laws not in force in the City of Tiruppur.  

8. Repeal of corresponding Law.  

9. Savings.  

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

11. Powers of courts and other authorities for purpose of facilitating application of the 

City Police Act.  

12. Power to make rules.  

13. Power to remove difficulties.  

14. Repeal and saving.  

 

 

  



THE CHENNAI CITY POLICE (EXTENSION TO THE CITY OF TIRUPPUR) ACT, 2012 

ACT NO. 35 OF 2012 

[14th November 2012] 

An Act to extend the provisions of the Chennai City Police Act, 1888 to the City of Tiruppur. 

 

BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Sixty-third Year 

of the Republic of India as follows:— 

 

1. Short title and commencement. -(1) This Act may be called the Chennai City Police 

(Extension to the City of Tiruppur) Act, 2012.  

 (2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 8th day of October 2012. 

 

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

 (1) “appointed day” means the 8th day of October 2012;  

 (2) “City of Tiruppur” means the City of Tiruppur as defined in clause (a) of section 2 

of the Tiruppur City Municipal Corporation Act, 2008  (Tamil Nadu Act 7 of 2008); 

  (3) “City Police Act” means the Chennai City Police Act,1888 (Tamil Nadu Act III of 

1888);  

 (4) “Government” means the State Government;  

 (5) “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. Extension of Tamil Nadu Act III of 1888.- (1) With effect on and from the appointed day, 

the City Police Act as in force immediately before the appointed day, shall stand extended 

to, and shall be in force, in the City of Tiruppur.  

 (2) In the City Police Act as extended to the City of Tiruppur,-  

  (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 City of Tiruppur;  

  (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 Tiruppur with whom the administration of the Police 

of the City of Tiruppur shall be vested. 

 



4. Power of Government to authorise Commissioner of Police for the City of Tiruppur 

and certain other Police officers in the City of Tiruppur to exercise powers of District 

Magistrate and Executive Magistrate under the Code of Criminal  Procedure, 1973.- 

 (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 Tiruppur to exercise and perform in 

relation to the City of Tiruppur, 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 

(Central Act 2 of 1974)  (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 in the City of 

Tiruppur (not being an officer below the rank of an Assistant Commissioner of Police) to 

exercise and perform in relation to the City of Tiruppur as may be specified in the 

notification, the powers and duties of an 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.  

 (2) Every officer subordinate to the Commissioner of Police in the City of Tiruppur 

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 in the City of Tiruppur or any officer subordinate to 

the 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. Police force functioning in the City of Tiruppur immediately before the appointed 

day to be deemed to be police force constituted under the City Police Act as 

extended.- 

 (1) The police force functioning in the City of Tiruppur immediately before the 

appointed day (hereinafter in this section referred to as the existing police force) shall, on the 

appointed day, be deemed to be the police force constituted for the City of Tiruppur under 

the City Police Act as extended by this Act and every member of the existing police force 



holding the office mentioned in column (1) of the Schedule immediately before the appointed 

day shall be deemed to be appointed, on such appointed day, to the office mentioned in the 

corresponding entry in column (2) of that Schedule. 

 (2) All proceedings (including proceedings by way of investigations) pending before 

any police officer of the existing police force immediately before the appointed day shall, on 

the appointed day, be deemed to be proceedings pending before him in his capacity as the 

holder of the office to which he is deemed to be 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 appointed day 

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 the City of Tiruppur 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. Control of the DirectorGeneral of Police over the Commissioner of Police for 

Tiruppur.- 

 (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the City Police Act as extended, the 

Commissioner of Police for Tiruppur 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 Tiruppur.  

 (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 Tiruppur under any law 

as a District Magistrate or an Executive Magistrate. 

 

7. Construction of reference to laws not in force in the City of Tiruppur.- 

 (1) Any reference in the City Police Act as extended by this Act to a law which is not 

in force in the City of Tiruppur on the appointed day shall, in relation to the said City, be 

construed as a reference to the corresponding law, if any, in force in the said City.  



 (2) Any reference to the Tamil Nadu District Police Act, 1859 (Central Act XXIV of 

1859)  in any law in force in the City of Tiruppur shall, in relation to the City, be construed, on 

and after the appointed day, as a reference to the City Police Act. 

8. Repeal of corresponding Law.- If, immediately before the appointed day, there is any law 

in force in the City of Tiruppur including the Tamil Nadu District Police Act, 1859 (hereinafter 

in this section referred to as the Central Act) and the provisions of the City Police Act 

specified in the Schedule to the Central Act and extended by way of notification under 

section 54-A of the Central Act corresponding to the City Police Act, such corresponding law 

shall, on the appointed day, stand repealed in relation to the City of Tiruppur, to the extent to 

which the corresponding law relates to matters with respect to which the State Legislature 

has power to make laws for the State. 

 

9. Savings.-  (1) The repeal by section 8 of any corresponding law shall not affect,-  

   (a) the previous operation of any such law or anything done or duly 

suffered thereunder; or  

   (b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or 

incurred under any such law; or  

   (c) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any 

offence committed against any such law; or 

   (d) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any 

such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid; and 

any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced 

and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed as if the City Police Act had 

not been extended.  

 (2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1), anything done or any action taken, 

including any appointment or delegation made, notification, order, instruction or direction 

issued, rule, regulation, form, by law or scheme framed, certificate, permit or licence granted 

or registration effected under such corresponding law, in relation to the City of Tiruppur, shall 

be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of the City 

Police Act and shall continue in force accordingly, unless and until superseded by anything 

done or any action taken under the said City Police Act as extended. 

 

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

constituted.- 

 Any reference by whatever form or words in any law in force to any authority 

competent on the date immediately preceding the appointed day, to exercise any powers or 

discharge any functions in the City of Tiruppur 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 City, have effect as if it were a reference to that new authority. 

 

11. Powers of courts and other authorities for purpose of facilitating application of the 

City Police Act.- 

 For the purpose of facilitating the application, in the City of Tiruppur, 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. 

 

12. Power to make rules.- (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. 

 

13. Power to remove difficulties.- If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of 

the City Police Act as extended by this Act, to the City of Tiruppur, 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 appointed day. 

 

14. Repeal and saving.- (1) The Chennai City Police (Extension to the City of Tiruppur) 

Ordinance, 2012 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 the provisions of this Act. 



 

THE SCHEDULE 

(See section 5) 

Designation of officer as immediately before 

the appointed day.  

(1) 

Post to which the officer shall be deemed to 

be appointed.  

(2)  

 

(1) Superintendent of Police. Commissioner of Police: 

 

 Provided that after the appointed day, the 

Government may appoint as Commissioner 

of Police an officer in the rank of Deputy 

Inspector-General of Police:  

 

Provided further that where a Commissioner 

of Police is appointed in the rank of Deputy 

Inspector General of Police, the Government 

may appoint a Deputy Commissioner of 

Police in the rank of Superintendent of 

Police. 

 

(2) Deputy Superintendent of Police Assistant Commissioner of Police.