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Section 2
The Maharashtra State Commissioners of Police ActMaharashtra

Section 2. Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

(a) "Commissioner of Police" means the Commissioner of Police appointed by the State Government for any area in the 1[State of Maharashtra] outside Greater Bombay under the 2Bombay Police Act, 1951(Bom. XXII of 1951), and includes an Additional Commissioner of Police and a Deputy Commissioner of Police 3* * * who under the orders of the Commissioner of Police exercises and performs any of his powers and duties;

(b) "existing law" means any enactment of a Legislature or other competent authority in relation to matters specified in Lists II and III in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India in force in any part of the 4State of Bombay immediately before the commencement of this Act 5[and in force in any part of the State of Maharashtra on the 1st day of May 1960] and includes any rule, by-law, regulation, order, notification, scheme, form or other instrument having the force of law made, prescribed or issued under any such enactment;

(c) "law for the time being in force" means any law relating to matters enumerated in Lists II and III in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India and for the time being in force in any part of the 6[State of Maharashtra];

(d) Schedule means the Schedule appended to this Act.

1Superscript markers show text inserted or substituted by a later amendment. The Act carries the markers without the footnotes they refer to, so they are shown without a target.