Bare Act
The Nagarsena Kanun Evam Niyam Adhiniyam, 1947
The Nagarsena Kanun Evam Niyam Adhiniyam of 1947 regulates the creation, operations, and control of volunteer groups or private organizations trained to use physical force. It applies to anyone organizing, managing, or participating in these bodies, as well as official members of authorized civic defense teams. This legislation matters because it helps the government preserve public peace by outlawing unauthorized private militias while establishing identification, uniform, and disciplinary standards for legal, approved volunteer forces. Violating the act results in fines or imprisonment, ensuring that armed or physical group activity only occurs under legal government control to safeguard the general public.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Prohibition of Nagarsena
- 4. Penalty for participation
- 5. Power to search and seize
- 6. Applicability of other laws
- 12. Power to make rules
- 13. (1)
- 14. Section 14
- 15. Protection of action taken in good faith
- 16. Section 16
- 17. Section 17
- 18. Section 18
- 19. Section 19
- 20. Section 20
- B. Nagarsena-Vidhan (Niyamavali)
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