Section 1. Short title and commencement

CHAPTER XI MISCELLANEOUS 153. Powers and duties conferrable and imposable on members of the Force. 154. Protection for acts of members of the Force. 155. Power to make rules. 156. Provisions as to existing Sashastra Seema Bal. THE SASHASTRA SEEMA BAL ACT, 2007 ACT NO. 53 OF 2007 [20 th December, 2007.] - An Act to provide for the constitution and regulation of an armed force of the Union for ensuring the security of the borders of India and for matters connected therewith. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:- CHAPTERI PRELIMINARY 1. Short title and commencement. -(1) This Act may be called the Sashastra Seema Bal Act, 2007. (2) It shall come into force on such date[1] as the Central Government may, by notification, in the Official Gazette, appoint. 1. 1st August, 2009, vide notification No. S.O. 1871(E), dated 31st July, 2009, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Sec. 3(ii). (p) "member of the Force" means an officer, a subordinate officer, anunder-officer or other enrolled person; (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) "rule" means a rule made under this Act; (v) "subordinate officer" means a person appointed or in pay as a Subedar Major or Inspector or Sub-Inspector and Assistant Sub-Inspector of the Force; (w) "superior officer", when used in relation to a person subject to this Act, means- (i) any member of the Force to whose command such person is for the time being subject in accordance with the rules; (ii) any officer of a 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; (x) "under-officer" means a Head Constable of the Force; - (y) "unit" includes- (i) any body of officers and other members of the Force for which a separate authorised establishment exists; (ii) any separate body of persons subject to this Act employed on any service and not attached to a unit as aforesaid; (iii) any other separate body of persons composed wholly or partly of persons subject to this Act and specified as a unit by the Central Government. (2) All words and expressions used and not defined in this Act but defined in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), the Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950) or the National Security Guard Act, 1986 (47 of 1986), shall have the same meanings respectively assigned to them in that Code or those Acts. (3) In this Act, references 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.