Section 3: Power to constitute, control and maintain the Pakistan Railways Police and its

3. Power to constitute, control and maintain the Pakistan Railways Police and its functions.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the Federal Government may constitute, control and maintain a force to be called the Pakistan Railways Police for performing, within such territorial limits as the Federal Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, specify the following functions, namely:— 1Ins. by Ord. 92 of 2002 s. 44 and Sch. (a) preventing loss to Railway property and property consigned to the Railways and prevention of offences in respect thereof; (b) ensuring proper conduct of persons on the Railways; (c) general maintenance of law and order on the Railways and taking cognizance of offences committed on them; (d) to render all possible assistance to passengers and 1[railway employees;] (e) to protect travellers from injury to person or property; (f) to keep Railway platforms and other Railway premises clear of idlers and beggars and to keep a lookout for suspicious persons, smugglers and persons travelling with arms without a licence or in contravention of rules, regulations or orders for the time being in force; (g) to search empty carriages for property left behind by passengers and to take possession of such property for due disposal under the law; (h) to control and regulate movement and parking of hackney carriages and mechanically propelled vehicles at Railway Stations and to enforce the regulations of the Railway authorities with regard to them; (i) to bring to the notice of the appropriate Railway authorities any contravention, breach or violation of any law of which the Pakistan Railways Police cannot itself take cognizance; and (j) such other functions connected with the purposes of this Act as the Federal Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, require the Pakistan Railways Police to perform. (2) Without prejudice to the powers conferred on it by or under this Act, the Federal Government may, in relation to the Pakistan Railways Police exercise all powers which, under the Police Act, 1861 (V of 1861) and the Code, are exercisable by a Provincial Government in relation to the Provincial Police.

Effective date: 1977-01-01

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