List of Acts and books, etc., prescribed for the examination of Sub-Inspectors for Bengal Police

under PRB

I – Law and Procedure (with books)

English Act-The Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. C. 69).

India Acts and Rules

The Indian Penal Code (Act XLV of I860).*
The Police Act, 1861 (V of 1861).*
The Foreigners Act, 1864 (III of 1864).
The Sarais Act, 1867 (XXII of 1867),* and the rules framed under it.
The Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867 (XXV of 1867), as amended by Act XIV of 1922.*
The Cattle-trespass Act, 1871 (I of 1871).*
The Evidence Act, 1872 (I of 1872)*.
The European Vagrancy Act, 1874 (IX of 1874).
The Dramatic Performances Act, 1876 (XIX of 1876)*, and the rules framed under it.
The Opium Act, 1878 (I of 1878), as modified in its application to Bengal.*
The Indian Arms Act, 1878 (XI of 1878)*, and the rules framed under it.
The Indian Explosives Act, 1884 (IV of 1884),* and the rules framed under it.
The Indian Railways Act, 1890 (IX of 1890).*
The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898).*
The Indian Extradition Act, 1903 (XV of 1903).
The Explosives Substances Act, 1908 (VI of 1908).*
The Indian Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1908 (XIV of 1908).*
The Whipping Act, 1909 (IV of 1909).*
The Prevention of Seditious Meetings Act, 1911 (X of 1911).*
The Inland Steam-Vessels Act, 1917 (I of 1917), *Chapters I, IV, VI and VII.
The Poisons Act, 1919 (XII of 1919),* and tho rules framed under it.
The Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920 (XXXIII of 1920).
The Police (Incitement of Disaffection) Act, 1922 (XXII of 1922).*
The Indian Official Secrets Act, 1923 (XIX of 1923).
The Criminal Tribes Act, 1924 (VI of 1924).
The Dangerous Drugs Act, 1930 (II of 1930).*
The Indian Press (Emergency Powers) Act, XXIII of 1931, with the amending Act, XXIII of 1932.
The Tea District Emigrant Labour Act, 1932 (XXII of 1932).
The Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (IV of 1939) and the rules framed under it.

Bengal Acts and Rules

The Salt Act, 1864 (Bengal Act VII of 1864).
The Bengal Public Gambling, 1867 (Bengal Act II of 1867).*
The Village Chaukidari Act , 1870 (Bengal Act VI of 1870), as modified by Bengal Act V of 1919.*
The Bengal Ferries Act, 1885 (Bengal Act I of 1885).*
The Private Fisheries Protection Act, 1889 (Bengal Act II of 1889).
The Bengal Excise Act, 1909 (Bengal Act V of 1909).*
The Bengal Village Self-Government Act, 1919 (Bengal Act V of 1919) and the rules framed under it.
The Bengal Cruelty to Animals Act, 1920 (Bengal Act I of 1920).*
The Bengal Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1925.*
The Bengal Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1930 (Bengal Act VI of 1930),* with notifications and rules issued thereunder.
The Bengal Suppression of Terrorist Outrages Act, 1932 (Bengal Act XII of 1932).*
The Bengal Suppression of Immoral Traffic Act, 1933 (Bengal Act VI of 1933).*
The Bengal Smuggling of Arms Act, 1934 (Bengal Act VI of 1934).*
The Bengal Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1934 (Bengal Act VII of 1934).
The Bengal Whipping Act, 1936 (Bengal Act X of 1936).
And all amending and supplementing Acts.
The Police Regulations, Bengal.

II – Law and Procedure (without books)

The Police Act, 1861 (V of 1861).*
The Indian Penal Code (Act XLV of 1860)* – definitions of offences and Chapters II, IV, V and XXIII.
The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898)* – Chapters IV to XIV, XXX and XXXIX and sections 550, 551 and 665.

III – Criminology

Textbooks to be sot from time to time by the Inspector-General. Concrete cases will be set for elucidation and examination ; and questions may be set on any article of interest that has been published in the Criminal Intelligence Gazettes of recent dates.

*As amended by tho Government of India (Adaptation of Indian Laws) Order, 1937.