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Supplement to Official Gazette

POLICE (AMENDMENT) DECREE 1979 Decree No. 23 [See section 2] THE FEDERAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT hereby decrees as follows: 1. The Police Act, (as reprinted by the Police Act (Authority to Reprint) Decree 1967) is hereby amended as follows : "Interpreta tion. (a) for section 2 thereof (which relates to definitions) there shall be sub stituted the followingnewsection 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires "Commissioner" means a Commissioner of Police, a Deputy Commissioner of Police or an Assistant Commissioner of Police ; "constable" means any police officer below the rank of corpor…