16. The Chittagong Hill-tracts shall be deemed to be a general police-district within the meaning of Police Act, 1861, and the ¹[***] Police Act, 1869 and the Inspector-General of Police, ²[Bangladesh] shall exercise therein all the powers and authority conferred on an Inspector-General of Police.

17. (1) All officers in the Chittagong Hill-tracts shall be subordinate to the Deputy Commissioner, who may revise any order made by any such officer, including a Deputy Magistrate and Deputy Collector or a Sub-Deputy Magistrate and Sub- Deputy Collector invested with any of the powers of the Deputy Commissioner under section 6.

(2) The Commissioner may revise any order made under this Regulation by the Deputy Commissioner or by any other officer in the Chittagong Hill-tracts ³[, except any order made in the matter of land administration and land reforms].

(3) The ⁴[Government] may revise any order made under this Regulation.

18. (1) The ⁵[Government] may make rules for carrying into effect the objects and purposes of this Regulation.

(2). In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may-

(a) provide for the administration of civil justice in the Chittagong Hill-tracts;

(b) Prohibit, restrict, or regulate the appearance of legal practitioners in cases arising in the said Tracts;

(c) Provide for the registration of documents in the said Tracts;

(d) regulate or restrict the transfer of land in the said Tracts;

(dd) provide for the control of money-lenders and the regulation and control of money-lending in the said tracts;

(e) provide for the sub-division of the said Tracts into circles, and those circles into mauzas;

(f) Provide for the collection of the rent and the administration of the revenue generally in the said circles, and mauzas through the chiefs, and headmen;

(g) define the powers and jurisdiction of the Chiefs, and headmen, and regulate the exercise by them of such powers and jurisdiction;

(h) regulate the appointment and dismissal of headmen;

(i) provide for the remuneration of chiefs, headmen and village-officers generally by the assignment of lands for the purpose or otherwise as may be thought desirable;

(j) prohibit,  restrict or regulate the migration of cultivating raiyats from one circle to another;

(k) regulate the requisition by Government of land required for public purposes;

(kk) provide for compulsory vaccination in the said tracts;

(l) provide for the levy of taxes in the said Tracts;

(ll) provide for the registration of persons who are habitual consumers of opium in the said Tracts; and

(m) regulate the procedure to be observed by officers acting under this Regulation or the rules for the time being in force thereunder.

(3) All rules made by the ⁶[Government] under this section shall be published in the Official Gazette and on such publication, shall have effect as if enacted by this Regulation.

(4) The powers conferred by this section on the ⁷[Government] shall be powers of the ⁸[Government] as respects rules for the regulation of the following matters, namely-

(a) the possession of fire-arms and ammunition and the manufacture of gunpowder;

(b) the cultivation, manufacture and sale for export of opium; and

(c) the import or export across customs frontiers, as defined by the ⁹[Government], of any intoxicating drug or foreign spirit or fermented liquor.

19. Except as provided in this regulation or in any other enactment for the time being in force, a decision passed, act done or order made under this Regulation or the rules thereunder, shall not be called in question in any Civil or Criminal Court.

20. [Repeal of certain enactments.] Rep. by the Amending Act, 1903 (I of 1903).