Section 12

Chapter IV: . POLICE. | Section 12: The Local Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, extend the provisions of Act No 12. The Local Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, extend the provisions of Act No. XX of 1856 (to make better provision for the appointment and maintenance of Police Chaukidàrs in Cities, Towns, Stations, Suburbs and Bàzàrs in the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal), to any cantonment (to which a Cantonment Magistrate may be appointed) and the Cantonment Magistrate of any cantonment to which the said Act is so extended) may exercise all the powers vested in a Magistrate by that Act subject only to the control of the Magistrate of the District and the Local Government. Whenever any such Cantonment Magistrate is absent, or when his office is temporarily vacant, the Magistrate of the District shall, during such absence or until the Local Government fills up the vacancy, carry out the provisions of the same Act when so extended as aforesaid. Power to order division of cantonments, &c.