Commissioner

(1) The Government may appoint a Police Officer not below the rank of a Deputy Inspector-General of Police to be the Commissioner of Police for the City of Bangalore or any other area specified in a notification issued by the Government in this behalf and published in the official Gazette. (2) The Commissioner shall exercise such powers, perform such functions and duties and shall have such responsibilities and authority as are provided by or under this Act or as may otherwise be directed by the Government by a general or special order: Provided that the Government may direct that any of the powers, functions, duties, responsibilities or authority exercisable or to be performed or discharged by the Commissioner shall be exercised, performed or discharged subject to the control of the Inspector-General: Provided also that in any area for which a Commissioner is appointed and is empowered to exercise any power or perform any function or duty under this Act, the District Magistrate shall not exercise the same power or perform the same function or duty notwithstanding the fact that such area forms part of a District within the territorial jurisdiction of the District Magistrate: Provided further that the area for which a Commissioner has been appointed, under this section shall not, unless otherwise provided by or under this Act, be under the charge of a Superintendent for any of the purposes of this Act, notwithstanding the fact that such, area forms part of a district within the territorial jurisdiction for which a Superintendent may have been appointed.