Amendment of enactments; power of State Government to confer powers and impose duties on commissioner of Police under any law.

(1) For the purpose of conferring powers and imposing duties on a Commissioner of Police and for certain other purposes, the enactments specified in column 1 of the Schedule shall be amended in the manner and to the extend specified in column 2 thereof. (2) The Commissioner of Police appointed under the Bombay Police Act, 1951, as amended by the Schedule shall exercise the powers and discharge the duties conferred and imposed on the Commissioner of Police for a presidency town or Greater Bombay by any law for the time being in force, including the enactments referred to in sub-section (1) as amended by the Schedule. (3) The State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette amend or delete any entry in the Schedule for the purpose of imposing any conditions or restrictions on the exercise of powers and discharge of duties conferred or imposed on the Commissioners of Police or withdraw them, as the case may be, and the Schedule shall be amended accordingly. (4) The State Government may confer and impose on the Commissioner of Police powers and duties under any other enactment for the time being in force and for that purpose may, by a notification in the Official Gazette, add to or specify in the Schedule the necessary adaptation and modifications in that enactment by way of amendment ; and thereupon- (a) every such enactment shall accordingly be amended and have effect subject to the adaptations and modifications made, and (b) the Schedule shall be deemed to be amended by the inclusion therein the said provision for amending the enactment. (5) The State Government may at any time in like manner cancel a notification under sub-section (4), and thereupon the relevant enactment shall stand unamended by the cancelled notification and the Schedule shall be altered accordingly.