3. One Police Force for the 1[whole of the 2[State of Maharashtra]].- There shall be one Police Force for the 3[whole of the 4[State of Maharashtra]] 5[and such Police Force shall include every Police Officer referred to in clause (6) of section 2] :
Provided that, the members of the Police Forces constituted under any of the Acts mentioned in Schedule I immediately before the coming into force of this Act 6[in the relevant part of the State] shall be deemed to be the members of the said Police Force.
Provided that, the members of the Police Forces constituted under any of the Acts mentioned in Schedule I immediately before the coming into force of this Act 6[in the relevant part of the State] shall be deemed to be the members of the said Police Force.
Source footnotes
1. These words were substituted for the words "whole State" by Bom. 34 of 1959, s. 6.2. These words were substituted for the words "State of Bombay" by the Maharashtra Adaptation of Laws (State and Concurrent Subjects) Order, 1960.
3. These words were substituted for the words "whole of the State" by Bom. 34 of 1959, s. 6.
4. These words were substituted for the words "State of Bombay" by the Maharashtra Adaptation of Laws (State and Concurrent Subjects) Order, 1960.
5. These words, brackets and figures shall be deemed always to have been inserted by Mah. 32 of 1987, s. 3.
6. These words were inserted by Bom. 34 of 1959, s. 6.
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