North-West Frontier Constabulary Act, 1915

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THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER CONSTABULARY ACT, 1915 
 
 
CONTENTS 
1.  Short title, extent, application and commencement 
2.  Definitions 
3.  Power to maintain Frontier Constabulary 
3A.  Power to employ Frontier Constabulary in other parts of Pakistan.  
4.  Constitution of Constabulary 
5.  Appointment and powers of superior officers 
6.  Appointment of subordinate officers and men 
7.  Superintendence, control and administration of Constabulary 
8.  More heinous offences 
9.  Less heinous offences 
10.  Minor punishments 
11.  Place of imprisonment and liability to dismissal on imprisonment 
12.  Deductions from pay and allowances.  
13.  Collective fines 
14.  Resignation and withdrawal from the Constabulary 
15.  General duties of members of the Constabulary 
16.  Power and duties conferable and imposable on members of the Constabulary 
17.  Protection for acts of members of the Constabulary 
 

 
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17A.  Apprehension of deserters 
18.  Authority to confer exclusive powers of Sessions Court on Deputy Commissioner 
19.  Criminal powers conferred with in Pakistan, to be exercisable beyond Pakistan 
20.  Application of Act to other bodies enrolled for service on Frontier 
21.  Power to make rules.  
22.  [Repealed.]  
THE SCHEDULE.___CONDITIONS OF SERVICE  
 
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THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER CONSTABULARY ACT, 1915. 
1ACT NO. XIII OF 1915 
 [1st October 1915] 
An Act to provide for the regulation of the Frontier Constabulary in the North-West Frontier 2*. 
 WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the regulation of the Frontier Constabulary in the 
North-West Frontier 2[*] ;     It is hereby enacted as follows :___ 
 1. Short title, extent, application and commencement.___(1) This Act may be called the 
North-West Frontier Constabulary Act, 1915 ; 
 (2) It extends to the whole of the North-West Frontier 2*, and applies also to every member 
of the Constabulary, wherever he may be serving ; and 
 (3) It shall come into force on such day3 as the 4[Federal Government] may, by notification in 
the official Gazette, appoint in this behalf. 
 2. Definition. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,___ 
(a)  “member of the Constabulary” means a person other than a person appointed 
by the 4[Federal Government] who, at the commencement of this Act, is 
serving in the Frontier Constabulary, or who, after the commencement of this 
Act, has been appointed to the Frontier Constabulary under this Act and has 
signed a recruiting-roll on which the conditions of service contained in the 
Schedule are set forth: 
      Provided that every person who has for the space of six months been in the receipt 
of pay as a member of the Frontier Constabulary and been borne on the rolls 
of the Frontier Constabulary shall be deemed to be a member of the 
Constabulary, notwithstanding that he has not signed the said recruiting-roll: 
(b)  “Commandant” means a person appointed by the 4[Federal Government] to be 
a Commandant of the Frontier Constabulary: 
(c)  “active service” means service against hostile tribes, raiders or other hostile 
persons, or persons co-operating with or assisting such tribes, raiders or 
hostile persons: 
 
1For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Gazette of India, 1915. Pt. V, p. 56 ; for Proceedings in Council, see ibid., Pt. VI, pp. 439 and 502. 
This Act has been applied to Phulera in the Excluded Area of Upper Tanawal to the extent the Act is applicable in the N.-W.F.P., subject to certain 
modifications ; and also extended to the Excluded Area of Upper Tanawal (N.W.F.P.) other than Phulera with effect from such date and subject to such 
modifications as may be notified, see N.W.F.P (Upper Tanawal) (Excluded Area) Laws Regulation, 1950. 
This Act and the rules, notifications and orders made thereunder, as in force in N -W.F.P. before the 15th July, 1975, have been applied to all the 
Provincially Administered Tribal Areas of N.- W.F.P. by Regulation III of 1975, s. 2 and Sch. 
2The original word “Province” omitted by the Central Laws (Statute Reform) Ordinance, 1960 (21 of 1960), s. 3 and 2nd Sch. (with effect from the 14th 
October, 1955). 
3The 15th October, 1915 ; see N.W.F.P Gazette., dated 29th November, 1915.  
4Subs. by F.A.O., 1975, Art. 2 and Table, for “Central Government”, which was previously amended by A. O., 1937, for “L. G.”. 
 
 
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(d)  the expressions “assault,” “criminal force,” “fraudulently,” “reason to believe” 
and “voluntarily causing hurt” have the meanings assigned to them, respec-
tively, in the Pakistan Penal Code. (XLV of 1860). 
 1[*       *       *       *       *       *       *]  
 3. Power to maintain Frontier Constabulary.___ 2[There shall continue to be a force, 
maintained by the 3[Federal Government], and called] the Frontier Constabulary, for the better 
protection and administration of the external frontier of 4[Pakistan] within the limits of or adjoining 
the North-West Frontier 5* or any part thereof. 
 6[3-A. Power to employ Frontier Constabulary in other parts of Pakistan. 
Notwithstanding anything contained in section 3 or elsewhere in this Act, it shall be lawful, and shall 
be deemed always to have been lawful, for the 3[Federal Government] to employ the Frontier 
Constabulary outside the limits of or adjoining the North-West Frontier 7[in other parts of Pakistan 
for the better protection and administration of those parts]. 
 4. Constitution of Constabulary. The Frontier Constabulary shall be constituted in such 
manner, and the members of the Constabulary shall receive such pay, pension, and other 
remuneration as shall from time to time 8* * * be ordered by the 3[Federal Government]. 
 5. Appointment and powers of superior officers.___ (1) The 3[Federal Government] may 
appoint any person to be Commandant and may appoint other persons to be District Constabulary 
Officers or Assistant Constabulary Officers of the Frontier Constabulary, or of any part thereof 
constituted in any one or more districts. 
 (2) The Commandant and every other officer so appointed shall possess, and may exercise, 
such power and authority over the subordinate officers and members of the Constabulary at any 
time, under his command as is provided by or under this Act. 
 6. Appointment of subordinate officers and men. The appointment of all officers and men 
of the Frontier Constabulary, other than those mentioned in sub-section (1) of section 5, shall rest 
with the Commandant and the District Constabulary Officer who shall respectively exercise such 
powers, in such manner as may be prescribed by rules made under this Act. 
 
 7. Superintendence, control and administration of Constabulary. ___ (1) The 
superintendence of, and control over, the Frontier Cons tabulary shall vest in the 3[Federal 
Government]; and the Frontier Constabulary shall be administered by the Com mandant and the 
District Constabulary Officer in accordance with the provisions of this Act and of any rules made 
thereunder. 
 
 
1Paragraph previously amended by A. O., 1937, has been omitted by the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Ordinance, 1981 (27 of 1981), s. 3 
and Sch II. 
2Subs by A. O., 1937, for “The L. G. may continue to maintain a force, to be called”.  
3Subs by F.A.O., 1975, Art. 2 and Table, for “Central Government”, which was previously amended by A. O., 1937, for “L. G.”. 
4Subs. by the Central Laws (Statute Reform) Ordinance, 1960 (21 of 1960), s.3 and 2nd Sch. (with effect from the 74th October, 1955), for the 
Provinces and the Capital of the Federation” which had been subs, by A. O., 1949. Arts. 3(2) and 4, for “British India”. 
5See foot-note 2 on preceding page. 
6Section 3A ins. by the special Criminal Courts (Second Arndt.) Ordinance, 1942 (42 of 1942), s. 2. 
7Subs by Ordinance 21 of 1960, s.3 and 2nd Sch. (with effect from the 14th October 1955), for “Province in a province other than that Province for the 
better protection and administration of that other province”. 
8The words “with the previous sanction of the G. G. in C.” rep. by A. O., 1937. 
 
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 (2) The District Constabulary Officer and the Constabulary of a district shall be under the 
general control and direction of the Deputy Commissioner of the district 1[or, when the Frontier 
Constabulary is employed under section 3A in 2[any part of Pakistan other than the North-West 
Frontier], under the general control and direction of the District Magistrate of the district]. 
 (3) In exercising authority under sub-section (2) the Deputy Commissioner 1[or District 
Magistrate] shall be governed by such rules and orders as the 3[Federal Government] may make in 
this behalf. 
 
 8. More heinous offences.___ (1) Every member of the Constabulary who commits any of the 
following offences, that is to say :___ 
 
(a)  begins, excites, causes or conspires to cause or joins in any mutiny; or being 
present at any mutiny, does not use his utmost endeavours to suppress it, or 
knowing, or having reason to believe in, the existence of any mutiny, or of 
any intention to mutiny, or of any conspiracy against the State does not, 
without delay give information thereof to his commanding or other superior 
officer; or, 
 
(b)  uses, or attempts to use, criminal force to, or commits an assault on, his 
superior officer whether on or off duty knowing or having reason to believe 
him to be such ; or, 
(c)  shamefully abandons or delivers up any garrison, fortress, post or guard which 
is committed to his charge, or which it is his duty to defend ; or,  
 
(d)  directly or indirectly holds correspondence with, or assists or relieves any 
person in arms against the State, or omits to discover immediately to his com-
manding or other superior officer any such correspondence coming to his 
knowledge ; or,  
 
who, while on active service,___ 
(e)  disobeys the lawful command of his superior officer ; or, 
(f)  deserts the service ; or, 
(g)  being a sentry, sleeps upon his post, or quits it without being regularly 
relieved or without leave ; or, 
(h)  without authority, leaves his commanding officer, or his post or party, to go in 
search of plunder ; or, 
(i)  quits his guard, picquet, party, or patrol without being regularly relieved or 
without leave ; or, 
(j)  uses criminal force to, or commits an assault on, any person bringing 
provisions or other necessaries to camp or quarters, or forces a safeguard or, 
without authority, breaks into any house or any other place for plunder, or 
plunders, destroys, or damages any property of any kind ; or, 
 
1Ins. by the North-West Frontier Constabulary (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1943 (42 of 1943), s. 3. 
2Subs. by the Central Laws (Statute Reform) Ordinance, 1960 (21 of 1960), s. 3 and 2nd Sch. (with effect from the 14th October, 1955), for “a Province 
other than the North-West Frontier Province”. 
3Subs by F.A.O., 1975, Art. 2 and Table, for “Central Government”, which was previously amended by A. O., 1937, for “L. G.”. 
 
 
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(k)  intentionally causes or spreads a false alarm in action or in camp, garrison, or 
quarters ; or, 
(l)  displays cowardice in the execution of his duty ; 
 shall be punishable with 1[imprisonment] for life or for a term of not less than seven years, or 
with imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen years, or with fine which may extend to 
three months' pay, or with fine to that extent in addition to such sentence of transportation or 
imprisonment, as the case may be, as may be passed upon him under this section. 
 (2) If any member of the Constabulary while on active service with a force beyond the limits 
of 2[Pakistan], is charged with committing any offence described in clause (c), clause (d), or clause 
(f), of sub-section (1), or the offence of culpable homicide amounting to murder, he may be 
summarily tired for such offence by the Political Officer accompanying the force, sitting with two 
other officers appointed by the Political Officer for this purpose.  
 (3) Every officer appointed under sub-section (2) shall be either –  
3[(a)  an officer of the Pakistan Army, other than a junior commissioned officer, or,] 
(b)  a civil officer, of gazetted rank, or, 
(c)  a person appointed under section 5 
 Provided that, if circumstances permit, not less than once such officer shall be a Constabulary 
Officer appointed under section 5.  
 (4) If one or both of the officers sitting with the Political Officer concur with him in finding 
the accused guilty, and the Political Officer so directs, the accused shall be forthwith shot to death.  
 9. Less heinous offences. Every member of the Constabulary who commits any of the 
following offences, that is to say,___ 
(a)  is in state of intoxication when on, or after having been warned for, any duty, 
or on parade or on the line of march ; or, 
(b)  strikes or attempts to force any sentry ; or, 
(c)  being in command of a guard, picquet or patrol, refuses to receive any 
prisoner or person duly committed to his charge, or, without proper authority, 
releases any prisoner or person placed under his charge, or negligently suffers 
any such prisoner or person to escape ; or, 
(d)  being under arrest or in confinement, leaves his arrest or confinement, before 
he is set at liberty by proper authority; or, 
 
1Subs. by the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Ordinance, 1981 (27 of 1981) s. 3 and Sch. II. for “transportation”.  
2Subs. by the Central Laws (Statute Reform) Ordinance, 1960 (21 of 1960), s. 3 and 2nd Sch. ( with effect from the 14th October, 195 5), for “the 
Provinces and the Capital of the Federation” which had been subs. by A. O., 1949, Arts. 3(2) and 4, for “British India”. 
3Subs. by the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Act, 1951 (26 of 1951), s.4 and III Sch., for the original clause(a).  
 
 
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(e)  is grossly insubordinate or insolent to his superior officer in the execution of 
his office ;or 
(f)  refuses to superintend or assist in the making of any field-work or other work 
of any description ordered to be made either in quarters or in the field ; or, 
(g)  strikes or otherwise ill-uses any member of the Constabulary subordinate to 
him in rank or position ; or, 
(h)  being in command at any post or on the march, and receiving a complaint that 
any one under his command has beaten or otherwise maltreated or oppressed 
any person, or has committed any riot or trespass, fails, on proof of the truth 
of the complaint, to have due reparation made, as far as possible, to the 
injured person or to report the case to the proper authority ; or, 
(i)  designedly or through neglect injures or loses or fraudulently disposes of, his 
arms, clothes, tools, equipments, ammunition, accoutrements or Frontier 
Constabulary necessaries, or any such articles entrusted to him or belonging to 
any other person ; or, 
(j)  malingers or feigns or produces disease or infirmity in himself or intentionally 
delays his cure, or aggravates his disease or infirmity ; or, 
(k)  with intent to render himself or any other person unfit for service, voluntarily 
causes hurt to himself or any other person ; or, 
(l)  does not, when called upon by his, superior officer so to do or upon ceasing to 
be a member of the Constabulary, forthwith deliver up, or duly account for, all 
or any arms, ammunition, stores, accoutrements, appointments or other 
property issued or supplied to him or in his custody or possession, as such 
member of the Constabulary ; or, 
(m)  knowingly furnishes a false return or report of the number or state of any men 
under his command or charge, or of any money, arms, ammunition, clothing, 
equipments, stores or other property in his charge, whether belonging to such 
men or to 1[the Government] or to any member of, or any person attached to, 
the Constabulary, or who, through design or culpable neglect, omits or refuses 
to make or send any return or report of the matters aforesaid ; or, 
(n)  absents himself without leave, or without sufficient cause overstays leave 
granted to him ; or, 
(o)  is guilty of any act or omission which, though not specified in the Act, is 
prejudicial to good order and discipline ; or, 
  Who, while not on active service,___ 
 
 
1The original word “Government” was first subs. by A. O., 1937 and then amended by A. O., 1961, Art. 2 (with effect from the 2 3rd March, 1956), to 
read as above. 
 
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 (p)  disobeys the lawful command of his superior officer; or, 
(q)  deserts the service ; or, 
(r)  being a sentry, sleeps upon his post, or quits it without being regularly 
relieved or without leave ; or, 
(s)  quits his guard, picquet, party, or patrol without being regularly relieved or 
without leave ; or, 
(t)  plunders, destroys or damages any property of any kind ; or, 
(u)  displays cowardice in the execution of his duty; 
 shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or 
with fine which may extend to three months’ pay, or with both. 
 10. Minor punishment.___(1) The Commandant or the District Constabulary Officer may, 
subject to any rules made under this Act, award in lieu of, or in addition to, suspension or dismissal, 
any of the following punishments to any member of the Constabulary who is, in the opinion of the 
Commandant or the District Constabulary Officer, as the case may 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 such member of the Constabulary, 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 
Constabulary. 
  (2) The Commandant or the 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 
headquarters of a district during the absence of the Commandant and the District Constabulary 
Officer may, without a formal trial, award to any member of the Constabulary who is subject to his 
authority any of the following punishments 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, 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. 
 
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 (3) Any one of the punishments described in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) may be 
awarded separately, or in combination with any one or more of the said punishments, respectively. 
 11. Place of imprisonment and liability to dismissal on imprisonment.___ (1) Every person 
sentenced under this Act to imprisonment may be dismissed from the Frontier Constabulary, and 
shall be further liable to forfeiture of pay and allowances due, as well as of medals and decorations 
received and the public money due to him. 
 (2) Every such person shall, if he is so dismissed, be imprisoned in the nearest prison or such 
other prison as the 1[Federal Government] may, by general or special order, direct; but, if he is not 
also dismissed from the Frontier Constabulary, he may, if the Court or the Commandant so directs, 
be confined in the quarter-guard or such other place as the Court or the Commandant may consider 
suitable. 
 12. Deductions from pay and allowances. The following penal deductions may be made 
from the pay and allowances of a member of the Constabulary, that is to say,- 
(a)  all pay and allowances for every day of absence either on desertion or without 
leave, and for every day of imprisonment awarded by a Criminal Court or of 
confinement awarded by an Officer exercising authority under section 10 ; 
(b)  all pay and allowances for every day whilst he is in custody on a charge for an 
offence of which he is afterwards convicted ; 
(c)  all pay and allowances for every day on which he is in hospital on account of 
sickness certified by the proper Medical Officer attending on him at the hos-
pital to have been caused by an offence under this Act committed by him ; 
(d)  all pay and allowances ordered to be forfeited under section 10 ; and 
(e)  any sum required to make good such compensation for any expenses caused 
by him, or for any loss of, or damage or destruction done by him to, any arms, 
ammunition, equipment, clothing, instruments, Frontier Constabulary 
necessaries or decoration, or to any buildings or property, as may be awarded 
by the Commandant or the District Constabulary Officer. 
 13. Collective fines. Whenever any weapon or part of a weapon or ammunition forming part 
of the equipment of a company or other similar unit is lost or stolen, the Commandant may, after 
making such inquiry as he thinks fit, impose a collective fine upon the subordinate officers and men 
of such unit, or upon so many of them as, in his judgment, should be held responsible for such loss 
or theft. 
 14. Resignation and with drawal from the Constabulary. No member of the Constabulary 
shall be at liberty to – 
(a)  resign his appointment during the term of his engagement, except before the 
expiration of the first three months of his service ; or,  
 
1Subs. by F.A.O., 1975, Art. 2 and Table, for “Central Government,” which was previously amended by A. O., 1937, for “L. G.”. 
 
 
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(b)  withdraw himself from all or any of the duties of his appointment, without the 
permission in writing (to be previously obtained) of the Commandant or the 
District Constabulary Officer or other officer authorised by the Commandant 
to grant such permission. 
 15. General duties of members of the Constabulary.___ (1) It shall be the duty of every 
member of the Constabulary promptly to obey and to execute all orders and warrants lawfully issued 
to him by any competent authority, to detect and bring offenders to justice, and to apprehend all 
persons whom he is legally authorised to apprehend, and for whose apprehension sufficient grounds 
exist. 
 (2) Every member of the Constabulary shall be liable to serve without and beyond, as well as 
within, the limits of 1[Pakistan]. 
 16. Power and duties conferrable and imposable on members of the Constabulary. The 
2[Federal Government] may, by general or special order, confer or impose upon any member of the 
Constabulary any of the powers or duties conferred or imposed on a Police officer of any class or 
grade by any enactment for the time being in force. 
 17. Protection for acts of members of the Constabulary.___ (1) In any suit or proceeding 
against any member of the constabulary for any act done by him in pursuance of a warrant or order 
of a competent authority, it shall be lawful for him to plead that such act was done by him under the 
authority of such warrant or order. 
 (2) Such plea may be proved by the production of the warrant or order directing the act, and, 
if it is so proved, such member of the Constabulary shall thereupon be discharged from liability in 
respect of the act so done by him notwithstanding any defect in the jurisdiction of the authority 
which issued such warrant or order. 
 (3) All suits and proceedings (whether civil or criminal) against any person which may 
lawfully be brought for anything done or intended to be done under the powers conferred by, or in 
pursuance of, any provision of this Act or the rules thereunder, shall be commenced within three 
months after the act complained of was committed and not otherwise ; and notice in writing of such 
suit or proceeding and of the cause thereof shall be given to the defendant or his superior officer one 
month at least before the commencement of the suit or proceeding. 
 3[17 A. Apprehension of deserters.___ (1) Whenever any member of the Constabulary 
deserts, his District Constabulary Officer shall give information of the desertion to such civil 
authorities as in his opinion may be able to afford assistance towards the capture of the deserter and 
such authorities shall, thereupon, take steps for the apprehension of the said deserter in like manner 
as if he were a person for whose apprehension a warrant had been issued by a Magistrate, and shall 
deliver the deserter, when apprehended, to Frontier Constabulary custody. 
 
 
1Subs. by the .Central Laws (Statute Reform) Ordinance, 1960 (21 of 1960), s. 3 and 2nd Sch. ( with effect from the 14th October, 1955 ), for “ the 
Provinces and the Capital of the Federation” which had been subs. by A. O., 1949, Arts. 3 (2) and 4, for “British India”.  
2Subs. by F.A.O., 1975, Art. 2 and Table, for “Central Government”, which was previously amended by A. O., 1937 , for “L. G.”. 
3Section 17-A ins. By the North-West Frontier Constantly (Amdt.) Act, 1965 (23 of 1965), s. 2. 
 
 
 
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 (2) A provost marshal appointed under the Pakistan Army Act, 1952 (XXXIX of 1952) , the 
Pakistan Air Force Act, 1953 (VI of 1953), or the Pakistan Navy Ordinance, 1961(XXXV of 1961) , 
or any person legally exercising authority under him or on his behalf, may arrest without warrant any 
person whom he reasonably believes to be a member of the Constabulary and a deserter or absent 
without leave and bring him without delay before the nearest Magistrate as if he were a deserter 
from the Pakistan Army, the Pakistan Air Force or the Pakistan Navy.]  
 18. Authority to confer exclusive powers of Sessions Courts on Deputy Commissioner:- 
Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (V of 1898), the 
1[Federal Government] may declare that the Court of any Deputy Commissioner and no other Court, 
shall be deemed to be the Court of Session for the disposal of cases, or any class of cases, arising 
under this Act.  
 19. Criminal powers conferred with in Pakistan to be exercisable beyond Pakistan. Any 
person invested with any powers under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1998 (V of 1898), for the 
disposal of any case under this Act within the limits of 2[Pakistan] shall, in relation to any case 
arising under this Act beyond such limits, have the same power and be subject to the same 
conditions as to appeal or otherwise as if such case had arisen within such limits. 
 20. Application of Act to other bodies enrolled for service on frontier.___ The 2[Federal 
Government] 3* * *may, by notification in the official Gazette, apply4 with such modifications (if 
any) as it may think fit, any of the provisions of this Act and the rules thereunder to the Border 
Militia or to any persons for the time being enrolled for similar service on the external frontier of 
2[Pakistan]. 
 21. Power to make rules. The 1[Federal Government] may, by notification in the official 
Gazette, make rules4  - 
(a)  regulating the functions and powers of the Deputy Commissioner 5[District 
Magistrate] Commandant, the District Constabulary Officer and the Assistant 
Constabulary Officer, respectively, under this Act ; 
(b)  regulating, 6* * * the classes and grades of, and the remuneration to be paid to 
the officers and men of, and the conditions of service in the 7Frontier Cons-
tabulary ; 
(c)  fixing the period of service for members of the Cons tabulary in any district or 
local area ; 
 
 
1Subs. by F. A. O., 1975 Art. 2 and Table for “ Central Government “, which was previously amended by A.O., 1937, for “ L. G ”. 
2Subs. by the .Central Laws (Statute Reform) Ordinance, 1960 (21 of 1960), s. 3 and 2nd Sch. (with effect from the 14th October, 1955), for “ the 
Provinces and the Capital of the Federation” which had been subs. by A. O., 1949, Arts. 3 (2) and 4, for “British India”.  
3The words “subject to the control of the G. G. in C.” rep. by A. O., 1937.  
4This Act has been applied with modifications to the Frontier Corps., viz., the Kurrum Militia, the Tochi Scouts and the South Waziristan Scouts see N: 
W.F.P. Chief Commissioner's Notification No. 1085-M., dated the 27th March, 1925. 
5Ins. by the North-West Frontier Constabulary (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1943 (42 of 1943),. s. 4.  
6The words “subject to the provisions of s. 4” rep. by A. O., 1937.  
7For the Frontier Constabulary Leave Rules, see Gazette of India, 1944, Pt. I, Section I, p. 1050.  
 
 
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(d)  regulating the award of minor punishments to Constabulary Officers under the 
powers conferred by sec tion 10, and providing for appeals from, or the 
revision of orders under, that section, or the remission of fines imposed under 
that section, and the remission of deductions made under section 12 ; 
 (e)  regulating the several or collective liability of members of the Constabulary in 
the case of the loss or theft of weapons and ammunitions ; and 
(f)  generally, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act. 
 22. [Repeal.] Rep. by the Repealing Act, 1938 (1 of 1938), s. 2 and Sch. 
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THE SCHEDULE 
 
CONDITIONS OF SERVICE 
 
[See section 2, clause (a)] 
AFTER you have served for such periods as the 1[Federal Government] may have prescribed in this 
behalf in the Frontier Constabulary maintained under the North-West Frontier Constabulary Act, 
1915, you may, at any time, when not on active service, apply for your discharge, through the officer 
to whom you may be subordinate, to the Commandant, or to the District Constabulary officer of the 
district in which you may be serving and you will be granted your discharge after three months from 
the date of your application, unless your discharge would cause the vacancies in the Frontier 
Constabulary to exceed one-tenth of the sanctioned strength, in which case you shall be bound to 
remain until this objection is waived by competent authority or removed. But when on active service 
you shall have no claim to a discharge, and you shall be bound to remain to do your duty until the 
necessity for retaining you in the Frontier Constabulary ceases, when you may make your 
application in the manner hereinbefore prescribed: 
 Provided that, if you wish to withdraw from the Frontier Constabulary, you may resign at any 
time before the expiration of the first three months of your service, but not afterwards until the 
completion of the period prescribed as aforesaid : 
 Provided, also, that the Commandant or the District Constabulary Officer may, if he thinks 
fit, allow you to resign at any time on your giving three months' notice of your wish to do so. 
Signature of the member of the 
Constabulary in acknowledgement of the 
above having been read to him. 
           A.B. 
 
 
Signed in my presence after I had 
ascertained that A.B. understood the 
purport of what he signed. 
 
             C.D. 
Commandant or, District  
Constabulary Officer. 
 
 
Date: 11-09-2024 
1Subs. by F. A. O., 1975 Art. 2 and Table for “ Central Government “, which was previously amended by A.O. 1937, for “ L. G “.