Section 27, The Police Act, 1964

(1) Whenever any person is prosecuted and charged before any court with an offence which amounts to felony or involves fraud or dishonesty, then, and in every such case, whether such offence is to be tried summarily or on information, or whether the said person has or has not been admitted to bail, it shall be lawful for a Superior Police Officer or the police officer for the time being in charge of a Police Station, if he is of the opinion that there are grounds for suspecting that such person has been previously convicted or has been engaged in crime, or that from any other cause his photographs, measurements, thumbprints and fingerprints are required for the purposes of justice, to cause to be taken for use and record in the Force, such photographs, measurements, thumbprints and fingerprints of the said person as such Superior Police Officer or the police officer for the time being in charge of a Police Station, shall think fit: Provided that if no conviction of the said person shall follow as a result of, or in connection with, such said prosecution, then, and in every such case, the photographs of the said person shall, together with the records of his measurements, thumbprints and fingerprints, be destroyed or handed over to him. (2) A Superior Police Officer or the police officer for the time being in charge of a Police Station is hereby authorised and empowered to take all such necessary action and do all such things as the proper and efficient execution of the provisions of this section may reasonably require. No. 7 Police 1964 A 73 (3) Where a thumbprint or a fingerprint is likely to become an exhibit in a criminal case any police officer may take for comparison the thumbprints and fingerprints of any person who is reasonably suspected of having made that thumbprint or fingerprint. (4) Any person who shall refuse to submit to the taking and recording of his photographs, measurements, thumbprints or fingerprints shall be taken before a Magistrate who, on being satisfied that such person has been prosecuted and charged before any court with an offence which amounts to felony or involves fraud or dishonesty, or is reasonably suspected of having made a thumbprint or fingerprint likely to become an exhibit in a criminal case, shall make such order as he thinks fit, authorising a police officer to take the measurements, photographs, thumbprints and fingerprints of such person. [Margin: Power to close licensed premises in case of riot.] **28.** A police officer not below the rank of Superintendent, a Magistrate or two Justices of the Peace, whenever any tumult, riot, or felony happens, or is expected to happen, in any place, may order every person who sells intoxicating liquors on premises in or near the place where such tumult, riot, or felony happens, or is expected to happen, to close such premises during any time which the said police officer, Magistrate or Justices may order; and any person who keeps open any such premises during any time during which the said police officer, Magistrate, or Justices shall have ordered them to be closed, shall on summary conviction, be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds; and it shall be lawful for any member of the Force, after such order has been given, to use such force as may be necessary for the purpose of closing such premises. [Margin: Provisions only to apply when put in force by Proclamation.] **29.** It shall be lawful for the Minister, whenever any tumult or riot has taken place, or may reasonably be apprehended, or public order is otherwise endangered, by Proclamation, to put in force for a period not exceeding three months in such areas as are named in the said Proclamation, all or any of the following provisions:— (*a*) A police officer may disperse any assemblage whatever which in the opinion of the police officer is likely to cause, provoke, facilitate or render more serious any disturbance or breach of the peace in any street, highway, path or public place and may arrest any person in such assemblage refusing or delaying to disperse, or re-assembling after dispersal. Any person so refusing or delaying to disperse or so re-assembling, shall if the Magistrate considers that there was reasonable ground for dispersing the assemblage, be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds. (*b*) Any person found in a street, highway, path or public place in possession of any stick, stave, bludgeon, iron bar, or weapon of any sort or description which, in A 74 No. 7 Police 1964 the opinion of a police officer he is carrying either for the purpose of assisting a disturbance, or is likely to use in case of a disturbance arising, may be arrested, and if the Magistrate is of the same opinion, be summarily convicted by him, and punished in like manner as is laid down in paragraph (*a*). (*c*) Any person making use of any words or gestures in the opinion of a police officer likely to lead to a breach of the peace, may be arrested and may, if the Magistrate is of the same opinion, be summarily convicted by him and punished in like manner as is laid down in pararaph (*a*). [Margin: Power to stop processions. Cap. 73.] **30.** (1) Any police officer may stop any procession in respect of which a permit is required under the Processions Act, and for which no permit has been issued, or which violates any of the conditions of a permit issued under that Act, and may order such procession to disperse. (2) All persons taking part in any such procession as aforesaid, who refuse to obey an order to disperse, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding ten pounds. [Margin: Power to regulate processions. Cap. 73.] **31.** (1) The Superior Police Officer in charge of the Police in any area may, as regards any procession of the nature of those set out in sub-section (6) of section 3 of the Processions Act, prescribe a particular route in such area, which the procession shall follow, and may prescribe that the procession shall abide by any traffic directions given by a police officer. (2) Any person who shall take part in any such procession which follows a route other than the route which may have been prescribed under sub-section (1), or who refuses to comply with any such traffic directions, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on summary conviction for a first offence, to a fine not exceeding ten pounds, and for a second or subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months. [Margin: Traffic.] **32.** The Superior Police Officer in charge of the Police in any area may make such orders as he thinks fit for the temporary direction and parking of any vehicular traffic which includes cycles, hand carts or any animal-drawn vehicle. [Margin: Idle and disorderly persons.] **33.** Any person conducting himself in such manner in any public place, street, or highway, as to cause an obstruction or annoyance to the public, may be moved on by any police officer, or arrested and taken before a Magistrate and on summary conviction shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds. PART V—PROPERTY UNCLAIMED, FOUND OR OTHERWISE [Margin: Court may make Orders with respect to property in possession of Police.] **34.** (1) Where any property has come into the possession of the Police in connection with any criminal charge, or as unclaimed property, or property found or otherwise, a court of summary jurisdiction may, on application either by a member of the Police Force, or by a claimant of the property, either order No. 7 Police 1964 A 75 the delivery of the property to the person appearing to the court to be the owner thereof, or, if the owner cannot be ascertained, make such order for the sale or other disposition of the property as to the court may seem just: Provided that except in the case of property of the kind specified in subsection (3) no property may be sold until it has remained in the possession of the Police for a period of three months and a description of the property to be sold has been published in two editions of the *Gazette* issued at an interval of not less than thirteen days. (2) An order for the delivery of property to a claimant under this section shall not affect the right of any person to take, within six months from the date of the order, legal proceedings for the recovery of any property delivered by virtue of the order against any person in possession of such property, but on the expiration of those six months the right shall cease. (3) Where any such property as is specified in subsection (1) is a perishable article or its custody involves unreasonable expense or inconvenience, it may be sold at any time without an order of the court. (4) Where any property is sold under the provisions of subsections (1) or (3) then— (*a*) the ownership and all other legal rights subsisting in such property prior to the sale shall be extinguished by the sale; and (*b*) the proceeds of sale (after deducting all reasonable expenses incurred in the storage, preservation or sale of the property) shall be deposited at interest at the Post Office for the benefit of such person or persons (if any) as may establish their rights to the property sold and if no such rights are established within a period of five years from the date any such monies were deposited they shall be paid into the Consolidated Revenue Fund and all further claims thereto shall be barred absolutely. [Margin: Forfeited property.] **35.** Property forfeited to the Crown which is in the possession of the Police may be destroyed, employed in the service of the Crown or sold as the Minister thinks fit and if such property is sold the proceeds shall be disposed of according to the provisions of subsection (2) of section 40 of the Interpretation Act, 1961. [Margin: No. 46 of 1961.] PART VI—OFFENCES [Margin: Offences.] **36.** (1) Any police officer who begins, raises, abets, countenances or incites mutiny shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years. (2) Any police officer who— (*a*) causes or joins in any disturbance whatsoever; A 76 No. 7 Police 1964 (*b*) being at any assemblage tending to riot does not use his utmost endeavour to suppress such assemblage; (*c*) coming to the knowledge of any mutiny, or intended mutiny, does not without delay give information thereof to his superior officer; (*d*) strikes or offers any violence to his superior officer, such officer being in the execution of his duty; or (*e*) deserts or aids or abets the desertion of any police officer from the Force, shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years. (3) Any person who, on enlistment to the Force, gives any answers, knowing the same to be false, to any of the questions set out in his attestation paper (as set out in the Second Schedule), shall on summary conviction be liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months. [Margin: Desertion] **37.** Any police officer may be proceeded against for desertion without reference to the time during which he may have been absent, and thereupon may be found guilty of desertion: Provided that a police officer shall not be convicted as a deserter or of attempting to desert unless the court shall be satisfied that there was an intention on the part of such officer either not to return to the Force or to escape some particular service. [Margin: Apprehension of deserters.] **38.** Upon reasonable suspicion that any person is a deserter, any police officer or other person may apprehend him, and forthwith bring him before a court having jurisdiction in the place wherein he was found, which may deal with the suspected deserter, or remand him to a court having jurisdiction in the place in which he has deserted. [Margin: Assault on police officer.] **39.** Every person who assaults, obstructs or resists any police officer in the execution of his duty, or aids or incites any other person so to assault, obstruct or resist any police officer or any person aiding or assisting such police officer in the execution of his duty, shall be guilty of an offence, and on summary conviction shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year. [Margin: Penalty on persons causing disaffection, etc., among members of Force.] **40.** Any person who causes, or attempts to cause, or does any act calculated to cause disaffection amongst police officers or induces or attempts to induce, or does any act calculated to induce any police officer to withhold his service or to commit breaches of discipline, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or both such fine and such imprisonment. No. 7 Police 1964 A 77 [Margin: Harbouring police officer or giving police officer gift or intoxicating liquor.] **41.** (1) Every person who knowingly harbours or entertains, or either directly or indirectly sells or gives any intoxicating liquor to any police officer, or permits any such police officer to abide or remain in his house (except in case of extreme urgency) when on duty, shall be guilty of an offence, and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, or to both such imprisonment and fine. (2) Any person who, by threats or by offer of money, gift, intoxicating liquor or any other thing induces or endeavours to induce any police officer to commit a breach of his duty as a police officer or to omit any part of such duty, shall be guilty of an offence, and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to both such imprisonment and fine, and in addition the money, gift, intoxicating liquor or thing shall be forfeited to the Crown. [Margin: Obtaining admission into Force by fraud.] **42.** Any person who knowingly uses or attempts to pass off any forged or false certificate, character, letter or other document for the purpose of obtaining admission into the Force or who, on applying for enlistment, shall knowingly make any false answer to any question which shall be put to him by a police officer, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds. [Margin: Ordinary course of law not to be interfered with.] **43.** Nothing in this Act shall be construed as exempting any police officer from being proceeded against in the ordinary course of law when accused of any offence punishable under any other Act or law. [Margin: Persons acquitted by court not punishable on same charge under this Act nor if convicted except by reduction in rank or dismissal.] **44.** (1) No person who has been acquitted by a court of any offence shall be tried on the same charge or suffer any punishment on account thereof under this Act. (2) If any police officer has been convicted by a court of any offence, he shall not be liable to be punished for the same offence under this Act otherwise than by reduction in rank or grade or by dismissal from the Force. [Margin: Constables to return arms and equipment.] **45.** (1) Subject to any Rules made under this Act, whenever a junior police officer or a constable ceases to belong to the Force, he shall deliver up his arms, uniform and other equipment supplied to him by the Government at such time and place and to such person as the Commissioner shall direct. (2) If he fails to produce, or to account satisfactorily for the absence of, any such arms, uniform or equipment, he shall be liable to pay the value of such arms, uniform or equipment as a civil debt and in any action for the recovery of any such sum a statement signed by a Superior Police Officer that such officer or constable has failed to produce or to account satisfactorily for the absence of any arms, uniform or equipment and stating the value of any such arms, uniform or equipment shall be sufficient evidence of the facts therein stated. A 78 No. 7 Police 1964 (3) If such failure to produce or to account satisfactorily for the absence of any such arms, uniform or equipment is, in the opinion of the Magistrate, wilful, the defaulter shall be guilty of any offence under this subsection and, in addition to being liable for the payment of any sum of money for the value of such arms, uniform or equipment, shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a period not exceeding twelve months. [Margin: Power of summoning witnesses.] **46.** Every Superior Police Officer empowered to enquire into offences by police officers, created by Rules made under this Act, and any member of a Court of Enquiry appointed thereunder to enquire into any matter affecting the order and discipline of the Force shall, in any matter touching such enquiries, be vested with all the powers of a Magistrate of summoning and enforcing the attendance and examination of witnesses and calling for documents in any matter before him. In every such enquiry where witnesses are examined on oath or affirmation, the proceedings and evidence shall be recorded in writing. [Margin: Carrying out of sentences of imprisonment.] **47.** Any sentence of imprisonment awarded by a Superior Police Officer shall be subject to confirmation by the Commissioner, and shall be served in a police cell or police guardroom and may involve— (*a*) deprivation of pay for the period of imprisonment; (*b*) attending all punishment drills, not exceeding one hour at a time, for four hours in all on the same day; (*c*) employment on fatigue duties; (*d*) forfeiture of pay. [Margin: Power of suspension.] **48.** A Superior Police Officer may suspend any police officer of or below the rank of Inspector charged with any criminal offence, or with any offence created by Rules under this Act: Provided that any such suspension shall be reported without delay to the Commissioner. [Margin: Pay not to accrue during absence without leave or imprisonment.] **49.** (1) No pay shall accrue to a police officer in respect of any day during which he is absent on desertion or without leave or undergoing any sentence of imprisonment. (2) A police officer, when under suspension pending the hearing of a charge against him, shall not be entitled to more than half-pay. If the hearing of the charge results in an acquittal, the member shall be entitled to receive full pay in respect of the period of suspension. (3) No period of such absence, imprisonment or suspension shall be reckoned as one day for the purposes of this Act or any Rules made hereunder, unless the absence, imprisonment or suspension has lasted for six consecutive hours or upwards, whether wholly in one day, or partly in one day and partly in another. (4) When any period of such absence, imprisonment or suspension exceeds six consecutive hours as aforesaid, but does not exceed twenty-four hours, it shall not be reckoned as more No. 7 Police 1964 A 79 than one day but if such period exceeds twenty-four hours every period of twenty-four hours, or part thereof, after the first period of twenty-four hours shall be reckoned as one day. (5) A police officer below the rank of Chief Inspector who has been recommended to be dismissed from the Force shall not be entitled to any pay for the period between the date of such recommendation by the Commissioner and the date on which the officer is dismissed by the Public Service Commission acting upon such recommendation. [Margin: Fines to be recovered by stoppages.] **50.** (1) All fines imposed upon police officers below the rank of Chief Inspector for offences under Rules made under this Act shall be recovered by stoppages from the offender's pay due at the time of committing such offence, and thereafter accruing due. The amount of stoppage in respect of any fine shall be in the discretion of the officer authorised to impose fines, but shall in no case exceed one-fifth of the monthly rate of pay of the offender and whenever more than one order of stoppage is in force against the same person, so much only of his pay shall be stopped as shall leave him a residue of at least four-fifths of his monthly rate of pay, excluding good conduct pay. (2) When more than one order of stoppage is made upon the same person, the orders later in date shall, where necessary, not be enforced until the earlier orders are discharged. [Margin: Loss of arms, etc.] (3) In all cases of damage or loss of arms, clothing, equipment or any Government property, in addition to such other punishment as may be awarded, the offender shall be put under stoppages of pay until he has made good the cost of repairing or replacing the articles lost or damaged: Provided that the total amount of stoppages referred to under this section shall not exceed in any one month one-fifth of the offender's monthly rate of pay. [Margin: Fines or stoppages and purchases in canteen.] **51.** (1) All fines, stoppages for loss of clothing or equipment or pay which has been forfeited may be deducted from the pay of any police officer who has incurred the liability. All such fines shall be paid into the Consolidated Revenue Fund. (2) All debts incurred by purchases from an official Police canteen may be deducted from the pay of any police officer who has incurred the liability. [Margin: Membership of political society, or trade union.] **52.** (1) Police officers shall not, except with the express approval of the Minister, be members of, or have any connection whatsoever with, any political society, organisation, or movement, or with any trade union, or any union (Civil Service or otherwise), either within or without Sierra Leone: Provided that no such express approval shall be necessary in relation to membership of a Police Federation established under such conditions as the Minister may, by Rules made under this Act, prescribe. (2) Any breach of the provisions of this section may entail immediate dismissal from the Force. [Margin: Obedience to lawful commands.] **53.** All police officers shall carry out the lawful commands of their superior officers. No. 7 Police 1964 A 79 than one day but if such period exceeds twenty-four hours every period of twenty-four hours, or part thereof, after the first period of twenty-four hours shall be reckoned as one day. (5) A police officer below the rank of Chief Inspector who has been recommended to be dismissed from the Force shall not be entitled to any pay for the period between the date of such recommendation by the Commissioner and the date on which the officer is dismissed by the Public Service Commission acting upon such recommendation. [Margin: Fines to be recovered by stoppages.] **50.** (1) All fines imposed upon police officers below the rank of Chief Inspector for offences under Rules made under this Act shall be recovered by stoppages from the offender's pay due at the time of committing such offence, and thereafter accruing due. The amount of stoppage in respect of any fine shall be in the discretion of the officer authorised to impose fines, but shall in no case exceed one-fifth of the monthly rate of pay of the offender and whenever more than one order of stoppage is in force against the same person, so much only of his pay shall be stopped as shall leave him a residue of at least four-fifths of his monthly rate of pay, excluding good conduct pay. (2) When more than one order of stoppage is made upon the same person, the orders later in date shall, where necessary, not be enforced until the earlier orders are discharged. [Margin: Loss of arms, etc.] (3) In all cases of damage or loss of arms, clothing, equipment or any Government property, in addition to such other punishment as may be awarded, the offender shall be put under stoppages of pay until he has made good the cost of repairing or replacing the articles lost or damaged: Provided that the total amount of stoppages referred to under this section shall not exceed in any one month one-fifth of the offender's monthly rate of pay. [Margin: Fines or stoppages and purchases in canteen.] **51.** (1) All fines, stoppages for loss of clothing or equipment or pay which has been forfeited may be deducted from the pay of any police officer who has incurred the liability. All such fines shall be paid into the Consolidated Revenue Fund. (2) All debts incurred by purchases from an official Police canteen may be deducted from the pay of any police officer who has incurred the liability. [Margin: Membership of political society, or trade union.] **52.** (1) Police officers shall not, except with the express approval of the Minister, be members of, or have any connection whatsoever with, any political society, organisation, or movement, or with any trade union, or any union (Civil Service or otherwise), either within or without Sierra Leone: Provided that no such express approval shall be necessary in relation to membership of a Police Federation established under such conditions as the Minister may, by Rules made under this Act, prescribe. (2) Any breach of the provisions of this section may entail immediate dismissal from the Force. [Margin: Obedience to lawful commands.] **53.** All police officers shall carry out the lawful commands of their superior officers. A 80 No. 7 Police 1964 [Margin: Private business or trade.] **54.** No police officer shall, while he holds such appointment, engage in any private business or trade without the consent of the Commissioner. PART VII—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS [Margin: Rewards and gratuities.] **55.** (1) It shall be lawful for the Commissioner, either on his own initiative, or on the recommendation of a Judge of the Supreme Court, or of a Magistrate, to grant monetary rewards and gratuities to police officers (including special and supernumerary constables) for or in respect of— (*a*) wounds or injuries received on service or otherwise in the course of duty; (*b*) special acts of bravery, such as— (i) saving or attempting to save life; (ii) saving or attempting to save property from loss by fire, theft, shipwreck or in other circumstances attended by danger; (*c*) valuable intelligence acquired by personal risk, hardship, or unusual skill; (*d*) any other special or meritorious service: Provided that any monetary reward or gratuity exceeding ten pounds shall require the sanction of the Minister. (2) All sums of money as may from time to time be granted under subsection (1) shall be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [Margin: Attachment of pay, etc. for debt.] **56.** The pay, allowances or gratuities of any police officer, or any monetary rewards granted under section 55, shall not be liable to be attached, sequestered or levied upon for or in respect of any debt or claim whatsoever, except a debt due to Government. [Margin: Unlawful possession of arms and clothing of police.] **57.** Any person, who shall knowingly detain, buy, exchange or receive from any police officer or deserter from the Force or who shall solicit or entice, or be employed by, any such police officer or deserter knowing him to be such, to sell, put away, or dispose of, any arms, clothing or equipment furnished for the use of the Police, or who shall have in his possession any such arms, clothing or equipment, and shall not give a satisfactory account of how he came by the same, shall be guilty of an offence, and on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding twelve months or to both such fine and imprisonment. PART VIII—RULES AND STANDING ORDERS [Margin: Rules.] **58.** The Minister may make rules relating to all or any ot the following purposes— (i) providing for the registration and photographing of criminals and persons prosecuted and charged before any Court with an offence which amounts to felony or involves fraud or dishonesty; No. 7 Police 1964 A 81 (ii) describing the duties of police officers in connection with such registration and photographing; (iii) prescribing that the duties of police officers in connection with the registration and photographing of criminals and persons prosecuted and charged before any Court with an offence which amounts to felony or involves fraud or dishonesty may in places where there are no police officers be carried out by prison officers; (iv) prescribing the manner and form of registration of criminals and the places in which registers shall be kept; (v) providing for the taking of fingerprints of criminals and any persons prosecuted and charged before any Court with an offence which amounts to felony or involves fraud or dishonesty; (vi) prescribing the persons who may be authorised to take fingerprints; (vii) prescribing how property which has come into the possession of the Police or which has been forfeited to the Crown shall be disposed of; (viii) providing for the discipline of the Force and offences against discipline and punishments therefor; (ix) providing for the appointment of Courts of Enquiry to enquire into any matters affecting the good order and discipline of the Force, and regulating their procedure; (x) providing for the establishment and management of canteens and recreation rooms for the benefit of the Force; (xi) prescribing the dress, clothing and equipment to be issued to the Force; (xii) prescribing the pay and allowances of police officers and making provision for the withholding, suspending, deferring or stopping of increments of pay; (xiii) prescribing the leave to be enjoyed by police officers; (xiv) generally for the purpose of giving affect to this Act; [Margin: Cap. 173.] (xv) providing for the application of any of the provisions of the Pensions Act and of any Rules made thereunder relating to the grant of gratuities and pensions to the dependants of special or supernumerary constables killed in the actual discharge of their duties as police officers, notwithstanding that such special or supernumerary constables as the case may be do not hold any pensionable office within the meaning of the said Act A 82 No. 7 Police 1964 [Margin: Standing Orders.] 59. The Commissioner may make such Standing Orders as he may think fit and proper for the good order, discipline and welfare of the Force, and such orders shall be binding upon all police officers. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, such orders may provide for the following matters— (1) the duties to be performed by police officers and for their guidance in the discharge of such duties; (2) the training and discipline of the Force; (3) the issue of arms, ammunition, accoutrements, uniforms and other necessaries to be supplied to the Force; (4) the qualifications of persons seeking enlistment in the Force, the form and method of their appointment, their general government with respect to their classification and rank, the services required of them and their conduct in the performance thereof; (5) organisation, administration and training of the Force; (6) general police duties; (7) the management and government of police offices, training schools, barracks, stations and rifle ranges; (8) management and government of cells and lock-up rooms and of persons confined therein; (9) distribution, posting and removal of police officers from station to station and the place or places in which they shall reside; (10) duties of Police in connection with civil disturbances; and (11) duties of the Police Band. PART IX—APPLICATION TO PROVINCES [Margin: Court Messengers.] 60. A Court Messenger who has been transferred to the Force shall notwithstanding that he has not complied with the provisions of sections 12 and 13, be deemed for all purposes to be a police officer and for the purposes of this Act to have been enlisted to serve in the Force on the date on which he was enlisted to serve in the Force of Court Messengers. [Margin: Proclamation, etc. in case of riot.] 61. The powers exercisable by the Minister under section 29 as to Proclamations may be exercised by a Resident Minister in respect of his province or any district or districts therein. PART X—SAVINGS AND REPEAL [Margin: Repeal of Cap. 150, and saving of Rules and Regulations, etc.] 62. The Police Act is hereby repealed: Provided that— (a) all Rules, Regulations and Standing Orders made under the provisions of the Police Act shall be deemed to have been made under the provisions of this Act, and shall continue in force except in so far as they shall from time to time be amended, revoked or replaced by Rules, Regulations and Standing Orders made under the provisions of this Act; No. 7 Police 1964 A 83 (b) persons who were police officers immediately before such repeal took effect shall be police officers under this Act and their status, seniority, rights, duties and functions shall not be affected thereby except in so far as expressly modified by the provisions of this Act or any Rules, Regulations or Standing Orders made hereunder.