3. The following new sections are hereby inserted immediately after section 26, and shall have effect as "sections 26A, 26B, 26C, 26D, 28E, 26F, 26G and 26H of the principal enactment: -
| 26A. An identity card issued to any person duly authenticated by the Commandant shall be conclusive proof of the appointment under this Ordinance of the holder thereof to the rank in the police reserve specified therein. |
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| 26B.
| | (1) The Commandant shall, on the directions of the Inspector-General of Police, mobilize such, officers of the police reserve as are required to assist the police force in the exercise of its powers and performance of its duties. No such officer shall be de-mobilized by the Commandant- except on the directions of the Inspector-General of Police. | | |
| | (2) The notification of mobilization may be conveyed to any member of the police reserve orally or in writing or by an announcement made over the radio or by publication in a newspaper. | | |
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| 26C. An officer of the police reserve shall be required to serve in any part of the Republic and within its territorial waters. |
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| 26D. On mobilization an officer of any rank in the police reserve shall have the same powers, duties, obligations and responsibilities and enjoy the same immunities as an officer of that rank in the police force. |
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| 26E.
| | (1) Any officer of the police reserve who, having been mobilized for service, fails without reasonable cause to report for service, or neglects or refuses to serve as such, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction after trial before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees or to rigorous imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to both such fine and imprisonment. | | |
| | (2) Any officer of the police reserve who, having been mobilized for service, fails without reasonable cause to carry out any lawful order, instruction or direction given for the performance of his duties by the Commandant or an officer of the police reserve duly authorized by the Commandant or any officer of the police force duly authorized by the Inspector-General of Police, shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on conviction after trial before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees or to simple imprisonment not exceeding three months, or to both such fine and imprisonment. | | |
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| 26F.
| | (1) It shall be the duty of. every employer to give all proper facilities for enabling any person in his employ to become or to be a member of the police reserve and any such person who is a member of that reserve to undergo and render such training and service as he may be required, to undergo and render by or under this Ordinance. | | |
| | (2) Any employer who-
| | | (a) fails to give the facilities referred to in subsection (1) of this section; or |
| (b) by dismissing an employee or by reducing his wages or in any other manner penalizes him for undergoing or rendering any training or service referred to in that subsection, |
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| | (3) Where an employer guilty of an offence under this section-
| | | (a) is a body corporate, every person. who, at the time of the commission of the offence, was a director, manager or secretary of such body; and |
| (b) is a firm, every partner of such firm, |
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| 26G. Any officer of the police reserve who-
shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction after trial before a Magistrate be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred rupees or to rigorous imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both such fine and imprisonment. | | (a) when not mobilized and without lawful authority uses or wears the uniform or any part of the uniform of an officer of the police reserve or any imitation, thereof which is calculated to deceive, or | | |
| | (b) without lawful authority supplies to a person who is not an officer of the police reserve, any such uniform or part of such uniform, | | |
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| 26H. It shall be lawful for the Inspector-General of Police, with the approval of the Minister, to make rules in respect of all or any of the following matters relating to the police reserve:
| | (a) the personnel and cadre of the police reserve; | | |
| | (b) the recruitment of officers and their conditions of service; | | |
| | (c) the duties and responsibilities of officers under mobilization; | | |
| | (d) the training of officers; | | |
| | (e) the arming of the police reserve; | | |
| | (f) the discipline of officers; | | |
| | (g) the mobilization and de-mobilization of officers; | | |
| | (h) the award of rewards or decorations in recognition of meritorious service; | | |
| | (i) the establishment and administration of a Police Reserve Amenity Fund; and | | |
| | (j) any other matter connected with the exercise of the powers and the performance of the duties by officers.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts