section 7
Powers to make regulations for public order
The Hyderabad (Metropolitan Area) Police Act, 2004Criminal200413 sections
Statutory text
Powers to make regulations for public order.—
- (1) The Commissioner may, for the purpose of preserving public order or preventing public nuisances, make, vary or rescind from time to time, regulations for all or any of the following matters, namely:—
- (a) licensing and controlling persons offering themselves for employment at quays, wharves and landing places, and outside railway stations, for the carriage of passengers' baggages;
- (b) regulating traffic of all kinds in streets and managing the crowds to prevent danger, obstruction or inconvenience in the public;
- (c) prescribing the routes by which and the times at which, any particular class of traffic shall pass or shall not pass;
- (d) regulating the door-to-door or street collections of money or other articles for charitable or other purposes;
- (e) closing certain streets or places temporarily, in cases of danger from riot or public disorder;
- (f) regulating the means of access to and from public places;
- (g) regulating the use of loudspeaker in or near any public place;
- (h) prescribing the structure and the number of the vehicles that may be allowed in any area;
- (i) prohibiting the use of streets or other public places by persons of any class or description or for any particular kind of traffic;
- (j) providing for the orderly conduct of persons in any public place.
- (2) Every regulation made under this section shall be published in the Hyderabad District Gazette and shall come into operation from the date of such publication.
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