Defence Legislation Manual (Bengal)

2. (1) The Central Government may by notifiction in the official Gazette make such 'rules as appear to it to be necessary or expedient for seeming the defence of British India the public safety the maintenance of public order or the efficient prosecution of war or for maintaining supplies and services essential to the life of the community (..2) Without prejudice to the generality of the [...] (xx) the control of '[agriculture trade or industry] for the purpose of regulating or increasing the supply of and the obtaining of information with regard to articles or things of any description whatsoever which can be used in connection with the conduct of war or for maintaining supplies and services essential to the life itf the community; (xri) ensuring the ownership and control of mines b [...] In addition and without prejudice to any powers which a Special Tribunal may possess by virtue of any law for the time being in force to order the exclsion of the public from any proceedings if at any stage in the course of a trial of any person before a Special Tribunal application is made by the prosecution on the ground that the publication of any evidence to be given or of any statement [...] 2. The District Magistrate in a district or the Commissioner of Police iji.11 Presidency-town may constitute for the district or Presidency-town as the case may be a body to be called the Civic Guard the members of which shall discharge such functions in relation to the protection of persons the security of property or the public safety as may be assigned to them in accordance with the provis [...] For the purposes of this Ordinance and with effect from the commencement thereof the Presidenctown of Calcutta shall be deemed to include the tract of country defined in the notification dated the 21st day of September 1880 published in the official Gazette in pursuance of section 1 of the Calcutta Suburban Police Act 1860 as the limits to which the operation of that Act is confined.