| 1.
| | This Ordinance may be cited as the Police Ordinance. |
| 2.
| | Laws and customs repugnant to this Ordinance repealed. |
| 3.
| | Establishment of police force. |
| 4.
| | Police force may be established in certain places, though not maintained in the manner prescribedin this Ordinance. |
| 5.
| | Police in rural districts. |
| 6.
| | Quartering of police in disturbed or dangerous districts or districts the inhabitants of state,which misconduct themselves. |
| 7.
| | Power to employ additional police force. |
| 8.
| | Meaning of "large work ". |
| 9.
| | Some of the provisions only of this Ordinance may be brought into operation in anyplace. |
| 10.
| | Definition of limits of town. |
| 20.
| | Officers in whom the administration of police is vested. |
| 21.
| | Appointment of officers for the purposes of this Ordinance. |
| 22.
| | Additional police officers be employed at the cost of individuals. |
| 23.
| | Recovery of expense under sections 6,7, and 22. |
| 24.
| | Establishment of police reserve. [2, Law 3 of 1974] |
| 25.
| | Appointment of Commandant and Deputy Commandant. [2, Law 3 of 1974] |
| 26.
| | Enrolling of reservists. [2, Law 3 of 1974] |
| 26A.
| | Identity cards. [3, Law 3 of 1974] |
| 26B.
| | Mobilization. [3, Law 3 of 1974] |
| 26C.
| | Officers to serve in any part of the Republic. [3, Law 3 of 1974] |
| 26D.
| | Powers, responsibilities &c, of officers. [3, Law 3 of 1974] |
| 26E.
| | Penalty for refusal to serve when mobilized. [3, Law 3 of 1974] |
| 26F.
| | Obligations of employers. [3, Law 3 of 1974] |
| 26G.
| | Unauthorized use of uniforms. [3, Law 3 of 1974] |
| 26H.
| | Framing of rules. [3, Law 3 of 1974,] |
| 27.
| | Police officers not to resign without leave or two months' notice. |
| 28.
| | Police force may be placed under the control of a public officer. |
| 28A.
| | Power to make regulations for the establishment and operation of a scheme for the grant of compensation in respect of the permanent total or partial disablement or death of police officers in the discharge of their duties. [4, Law 3 of 1974.] |
| 29.
| | Expenses of police.[3, 2 of 1968.] |
| 30.
| | Fixed rates at which recovery of cost of police shall be made.[4, 2 of 1968.] |
| 31.
| | Tax to be levied for maintenance of police. |
| 32.
| | Meaning of "bona fide annual value . |
| 33.
| | Minimum rates may be now received in certian places from one rupee fifty cents. |
| 34.
| | Power to appoint three or more assessors to assess the town, acting separately or collectively. |
| 35.
| | Time for appointment of assessors. |
| 36.
| | Mode of assessment. |
| 37.
| | Power to assessors to call for returns. |
| 38.
| | Tax to be payable quarterly by owner. |
| 39.
| | Notice of assessment and demand of payment of tax to be served. |
| 40.
| | Person dissatisfied with assessment may institute action in appropriate court. |
| 41.
| | Proceedings if tax not duly paid. |
| 42.
| | Property may not be seized for arrears of tax beyond two quarters except in certain cases. |
| 43.
| | Order to be observed in seizing and selling property for recovery of tax. |
| 44.
| | Movables of defaulter wherever found,and of any person in the premises for which tax is due may be seized and sold. |
| 45.
| | Sale of rents and profits. |
| 46.
| | Sale of building materials and timber. |
| 47.
| | Sale of premises on which tax is due or a portion thereof. |
| 48.
| | Officers not liable for observe order of seizure and sale. |
| 49.
| | Property seized may be removed or a person placed possession. |
| 50.
| | Costs of seizure, &c. |
| 51.
| | Houses may be broken open &c. |
| 52.
| | Tenant paying tax to avoid seizure of his property may deduct it from his rent. |
| 53.
| | After payment of the tax and charges, overplus accruing from sale to be restored to the owner of the property. |
| 54.
| | Certificate of sale. |
| 55.
| | The inspector-General of police may make rules for police. |
| 56.
| | Duties of police officers. |
| 57.
| | Police officers to have authority to execute warrants in all parts of Sri Lanka. |
| 58.
| | Police officers to act in ports of Sri Lanka. |
| 59.
| | Minister may make rules. |
| 60.
| | Police officers to obey lawful orders of Master Attendant and customs officer. |
| 61.
| | Penalties. |
| 62.
| | Meaning of " Port". |
| 63.
| | Certain duties police officers. obstructions and nuisances on roads. |
| 64.
| | Power of police to seize straying cattle, &c. |
| 65.
| | Persons arrested without warrant to be taken to police station until brought before Magistrate or bailed. |
| 66.
| | Officer in charge of police station may take recognizance for appearance of prosecutor or witness. |
| 67.
| | Condition of recognizance. |
| 68.
| | Police officer may enter drinking shops, &c, without a warrant. |
| 69.
| | Penalty on persons found drunk and incapable. |
| 70.
| | Police officer not to receive complaints of petty offences. |
| 71.
| | Police officers may lay information, &c. |
| 72.
| | Court to direct payment of share of fine to Police Reward Fund. |
| 73.
| | Police Reward Fund. |
| 74.
| | Execution of process beyond five miles. |
| 75.
| | In case of fire, &c, police repair to the spot. |
| 76.
| | Householder to give lists of inmates when required. |
| 77.
| | Power to give directions prohibiting or regulating processions. |
| 78.
| | Regulation of public processions, &c, and of carriages and persons at places of public resort. Licences for use of music in streets. |
| 79.
| | Possession of dangerous weapons at public meetings and processions, and use of words or behaviour tending to cause breach of the peace. |
| 80.
| | Regulation of use in or near public places of instruments producing or reproducing sound. |
| 81.
| | Meaning of "public meeting" and "public place" in sections 77 to 80. |
| 82.
| | Penalties for neglect of duty, &c. |
| 83.
| | Penalty for cowardice. |
| 84.
| | Unlawful assumptions of police function, personation of police, &c. |
| 85.
| | Penalty on traffic in Government property. |
| 86.
| | Nuisances how to be removed and abated. |
| 87.
| | Plead that act was done under a Warrant. |
| 88.
| | Limitation of action. |
| 89.
| | Wells to be surrounded with wall two feet high. |
| 90.
| | No cart to remain in the street, &c. except for loading and unloading. |
| 91.
| | No carriage to obstruct any street. |
| 92.
| | Penalty on furious or carelessriding or driving. |
| 93.
| | Elephants not to pass along the streets except at certain times. |
| 94.
| | Persons offending against sections 90, 91, 92 and 93 may be seized. |
| 95.
| | Penalty on persons forming part of procession or assemblies carrying sword or other offensive weapons. |
| 96.
| | Beating of tom-tom &c, forbidden. |
| 97.
| | Appeal against refusal of conditions in, or withdrawal of, licence. |
| 98.
| | False reports to alarm people and create a panic. |
| 99.
| | Persons to keep the space opposite their houses clean. |
| 100.
| | Common nuisance. |
| 101.
| | Houses to be surrounded with walls or fences and gardens kept clean. |
| 102.
| | Cases may be tried before Magistrates Courts though otherwise out of their jurisdiction. |
| 103.
| | Power to prosecute not affected. |
| 104.
| | Interpretation. |
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