¹[9. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Ordinance or in the Police Act, 1861 (V of 1861), or in any other law for the time being in force, the Government or the Inspector-General may transfer a police-officer appointed under this Ordinance to the police-force constituted under the Police Act, 1861 (V of 1861), and a police-officer appointed under the Police Act, 1861 (V of 1861), to the police-force constituted under this Ordinance, and on such transfer the provisions of the law under which the police-force to which the police-officer is transferred has been constituted shall mutatis mutandis apply to him: Provided that no police-officer so transferred shall be dismissed, removed or reduced in rank by an authority subordinate to that by which he was appointed.]