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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 :-- 11. Minor punishments.---(1) The Commandant, Deputy Commandant or District Constabulary Officer may, subject to any rules made under this Act, award to any member of the Constabulary whom the Commandant, Deputy Commandant or District Constabulary Officer, as the case may be, considers to be guilty of disobedience, neglect of duty or remissness in the discharge of any duty, or of rendering himself unfit to discharge his duty, or of other misconduct in his capacity as a member of the Constabulary, in lieu of, or in addition to, suspension, removal or dismissal from service, any one or more of the following punishments, that is to say,- (a) reduction in rank and emoluments; (b) fine to any amount not exceeding one month's pay and allowances; (c) confinement to quarters for a term not exceeding one month; (d) confinement in the quarter guard for not more than twenty-eight days, with or without punishment-drill or extra guard, fatigue or other duty ; and (e) removal from any office of distinction or special emolument in the Baluchistan Constabulary. (2) The Commandant, Deputy Commandant or District Constabulary Officer or an officer not being below the rank of Subedar, commanding a separate detachment or an outpost, or in temporary command at the head quarters of a District during the absence of the Commandant, Deputy Commandant and District Constabulary Officer, may, without a formal trial, award to any member of the Constabulary who is subject to his authority, for the commission of any petty offence against discipline which is not otherwise provided for in this Act, or which is not of a sufficiently serious nature to call for a prosecution before a Criminal Court, any of the following punishments that is to say,- (a) confinement for not more than seven days in the quarter guard or such other place as may be considered suitable, with forfeiture of all pay and allowances during its continuance; and (b) punishment-drill, or extra guard, fatigue or other duty, for not more than thirty days, with or without confinement to quarters. (3) Any one of the punishments described in subsection (1) or sub section (2? may be awarded separately, or in combination with any one or more of the said punishments, respectively.