Section 1. Short title and commencement

CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY 1. Short title and commencement . — (1) This Act may be called the Assam Rifles Act, 2006. (2) It shall come into force on such date[1] as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. 1. 20th February, 2009, vide notification No. S.O. 517(E), dated 20th February, 2009, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II sec.3(ii) (j) "Director-General" and "Additional Director-General" mean, the Director-General and Additional Director-General of the Force appointed under sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 5, respectively; (k) "enemy" includes all armed mutineers, armed rebels, armed rioters, pirates, terrorists and any person in arms against whom it is the duty of any person subject to this Act to take action; (l) "enrolled person" means an under-officer or other person enrolled under this Act; (m) "Force" means the Assam Rifles; (n) "Force custody" means the arrest or confinement of a member of the Force according to rules and includes any military custody of such member under the Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950); (o) "Inspector-General" and "Deputy Inspector-General" mean, respectively the InspectorGeneral and the Deputy Inspector-General of the Force appointed under sub-section (2) of section 5; (p) "member of the Force" means an officer, a subordinate officer, an under-officer or other enrolled person and includes the persons on deputation; (q) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (r) "offence" means any act or omission punishable under this Act and includes a civil offence; (s) "officer" means a person appointed or in pay as an officer of the Force; but does not include a subordinate officer or an under-officer; (t) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (u) "regulations" means the regulations made by the Central Government under this Act; (v) "rule" means a rule made under this Act; (w) "subordinate officer" means a person appointed or in pay as a Subedar Major, a Subedar or a Naib Subedar of the Force; (x) "superior officer", when used in relation to a person subject to this Act, means — (i) any member of the Force or a person on deputation to whose command such person is for the time being subject in accordance with the rules; (ii) any officer of higher rank or class or of a higher grade in the same class, and includes when such person is not an officer, a subordinate officer or an under-officer of higher rank, class or grade; (y) "terrorist" means any person who, with intent to overawe the Government as by law established or to strike terror in the people or any section of the people or to alienate any section of the people or to adversely affect the harmony amongst different sections of the people, does any act or thing by using bombs, dynamite or other explosive substances or inflammable substances or firearms or other lethal weapons or poisons or noxious gases or other chemicals or any other substances (whether biological or otherwise) of a hazardous nature in such a manner, as to cause or is likely to cause death of, or injury to, any person or persons, or damage to, or destruction of, property or disruption of any supplies or services essential to the life of the community; (z) "under-officer" means a Warrant Officer, Havildar, Naik and Lance Naik of the Force; - (za) "unit" means any — - (i) battalion; or - (ii) regiment; or - (iii) training institution; or (iv) Head Quarters of Deputy Inspector-General; or (v) Head Quarters of Inspector-General; or - (vi) Head Quarters of Director-General, of the Force and includes any other formation of the Force specified, by notification by the Central Government. (2) Words and expressions used and not defined in this Act but defined in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) shall have the meanings assigned to them in that Code. (3) In this Act, reference to any law not in force in the State of Jammu and Kashmir shall be construed as references to the corresponding law in force in that State.