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ACT XLI OF 1975 ACT XLI OF 1975 BALUCHISTAN CONSTABULARY ACT, 1975 An Act to provide for the regulation of the Baluchistan Constabulary in Baluchistan [Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, Part I, 23rd April 1975] The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President of 19th April 1975, and is hereby published for general information :-- 2. Definitions.----In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,- (a) "active service" means service against an external aggressor or enemy, or against hostile tribes, raiders or other hostile persons, or persons co-operating with or assisting such aggressor, enemy, tribes, raiders or other hostile persons; (b) "Commandant" means a person appointed by the Federal Government to be the Commandant of the Baluchistan Constabulary under section 6; (c) "custody" means the arrest or confinement of a person according to the usage of the service; (d) "member of the Constabulary" means a person other than a person appointed under section 6 by the Federal Government who, at the commence ment of this Act, is serving in the Baluchistan Constabulary or who, after such commencement, is appointed to the Baluchistan Constabulary under this Act and has signed a recruiting-roll set out in the Schedule: Provided that every person who has for a period of six months been in receipt of pay as a member of the Constabulary and has been borne on its roll shall be deemed to be a member of the Constabulary notwithstanding that he has not signed the said recruiting- roll; (e) "Political Officer" means any Civil or Military Officer detailed by the Federal Government as Political Officer accompanying the force; (f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; and (g) "the expressions", "assault", "criminal force", "fraudulently", "murder", "reason to believe" and "voluntarily causing hurt" have the mean ings assigned to them, respectively, in the Pakistan Penal Code (Act XLV of 1860).