Uttar Pradesh Home Guards Adhiniyam, 1963
No: 29 Dated: Dec, 30 1963
The Uttar Pradesh Home Guards Adhiniyam, 1963
(U.P. Act No. 29 of 1963)
An Act to provide for the constitution of the home Guards in Uttar Pradesh
Whereas it is expedient to provide for the constitution of a force known as the Uttar Pradesh Home Guards for utilising its services for duties in times of emergency and serving as an auxiliary to the Police for the maintenance of law and order.
It is hereby enacted in the Fourteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows :
1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Uttar Pradesh Home Guards Adhiniyam, 1963.
(2) It shall extend to the whole of Uttar Pradesh.
(3) It shall come into force at once.
2. Definitions. - In this Act unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context-
(a) "District Commandant" means the Officer commanding the Home Guards in a district;
(b) "duty" or "service" as home guard shall include the undergoing of training as such;
(c) "employer" means an employer in relation to private service, and includes his authorised agent or manager and in the case of a corporation, firm or other association of individuals, includes its director, partner, secretary or other persons in charge of or responsible to it for the conduct of its business at any given time;
(d) "essential service" means motor transport, pioneer and engineering corp, fire brigades, nursing, first-aid operation of water and power supply installations and such other services as may be notified by the State Government as being essential to the life of the community;
(e) "home guard" means a person who is enrolled as such, and includes an officer appointed under this Act;
(f) "Police" shall have the same meaning assigned to the word in the Police Act, 1861;
(g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules framed under this Act;
(h) "private service" means any service other than service under the State;
(j) "Service under the State" means service under the "State" as defined in Article 12 of the Constitution of India, and includes service under any statutory corporation;
(k) "State Government" means the Government of Uttar Pradesh; and
3. Constitution of Home Guards. - There shall be raised and maintained a volunteer force to be designated the Uttar Pradesh Home Guards hereinafter called the Home Guards and it shall be constituted in the manner prescribed.