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ACT X OF 2011 ACT X OF 2011 BALOCHISTAN POLICE ACT, 2011 An Act to reconstruct and regulate the Police [Gazette of Balochistan, Extraordinary, 24th August, 2011] No. PAB/Legis: V (10)/2011, dated 24-8-2011.---The Balochistan Police Bill No. 10 of 2011, having been passed by the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan on 19th August, 2011 and assented to by the Governor, Balochistan on 24th August, 2011 is hereby published as an Act of the Balochistan Provincial Assembly. Preamble.---Whereas it is expedient to re-organize the police and to make it a more efficient instrument for the prevention and detection of crime: It is hereby, enacted as under:- 23. Police Officers to take charge of unclaimed property and be subject to District Magistrate's order as to disposal.---(1) It shall be the duty of every police-officer to take charge of all unclaimed property, and to furnish an inventory thereof to the District Magistrate. (2) The police-officers shall be guided as to the disposal of such property by such orders as they shall receive from the District Magistrate. (3) The District Magistrate may detain the property and issue a proclamation, specifying the articles of which it consists, and requiring any person who has any claim thereto to appear and establish his right to the same within six months from the date of such proclamation. (4) The provisions of section 525 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, shall be applicable to property referred to in this section. (5) If no person shall within the period allowed claim such property, or the proceeds thereof, if sold, it may, if not already sold under subsection (4), be sold under the orders of the District Magistrate. The sale-proceeds of property sold under the preceding subsections to which no claim has been established shall be at the disposal of the Government.