(1) It shall be lawful for a Police Officer (i) in any area for which a Commissioner of Police has been appointed not below the rank of a Sub Inspector and either empowered by general order in writing or 615 authorized in each case by special warrant issued by the Commissioner of Police, and (ii) elsewhere not below the rank of a Sub Inspector of Police authorised by special warrant issued in each case by a District Magistrate or Sub Divisional Magistrate or by a Taluka Magistrate specially empowered by the State Government in this behalf or by a Superintendent of Police or by an Assistant or Deputy Superintendent of Police especially empowered by the State Government in this behalf, and (iii) without prejudice to the provision in clause (ii) above, in such other area as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf, not below the rank of a Sub Inspector and empowered by general order in writing issued by the District Magistrate.