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(1) Notwithstanding anything in the Madras District Police Act, 1859, (24 of 1859) the Indian Police Act, 1861, (5 of 1861) the Bombay District Police Act, 1890, (Bom 4 of 1890) or any Act relating to the police in any Presidency- town { E.g., the Madras City Police Act, 1888 (Mad.III of 1888), the City of Bombay Police Act, 1902 (Bom.IV of 1902), and the Calcutta Police Act, 1866 (Ben.IV of 1866).}, the Central Government may, by notification {For instances see Gazette of India, 1910, Pt.I, p.3; 1912, Pt.I, p.1589 Gazette or India, Extraordinary, 1937, p.672.} in the Official Gazette, create a special poise district embracing parts of two or more States, and extend to every part of the said district the powers and jurisdiction of members of a police force belonging to { Subs by the A.O.1948, for " any part of British India ".} [a State] specified in the notification.
(2) Subject to any orders which the Central Government may make in this behalf, members of the said police force shall have, within every part of any State of which any part is included in the said district, the powers, duties, privileges and liabilities which, as police officers, they have in their own State.
(3) Any member of the said police force whom the Central Government shall generally or specially empower to act under this subsection may, subject to any orders which the Central Government may make in this behalf, exercise within any State any part of which is included in the said district any of the powers of the officer in charge of a police-station in that State, and when so exercising any such powers, shall, subject to any such Order as aforesaid, be deemed to be an officer in charge of a police-station discharging the functions of such an officer within the limits of his station.
(4) A part of a State included in the said district shall not by reason of that inclusion cease, for the purposes of any enactment relating to police to be part of that State.]