Section 16: Protection of persons serving in the Frontier Crops

16. Protection of persons serving in the Frontier Crops.—(1) In any suit or proceeding against any person appointed under section 5 or any member of the Frontier Corps for any act done by him in pursuance of a warrant or order of a competent authority, it shall be lawful for him to plead that such act was done by him under the authority of such warrant or order. (2) Such plea may be proved by the production of the warrant or order directing the act, and if it is so proved, the defendant shall thereupon be discharged from liability in respect of the act so done by him, notwithstanding any defect in the jurisdiction of the authority which issued the warrant or order. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, all suits and proceedings (whether civil or criminal) against any person which may lawfully be brought for anything done or intended to be done under the powers conferred by, or in pursuance of, any provision of this Ordinance or the rules made thereunder, shall be commenced within three months after the act complained of was committed, and not otherwise, and notice in writing of such suit or proceeding and of the cause thereof shall be give to the defendant or his superior officer one month at least before the commencement of the suit or proceeding.

Effective date: 1959-01-01

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