Power to control traffic at assemblies and public resorts
143.—(1) The Deputy Commissioner of Police may from time to time issue police orders, prescribing the routes, entrances and exits by which traffic shall approach or leave any place of assembly or public resort, and prescribing where and the order in which vehicles shall park while waiting at such places.
(2) An order made under this section may prescribe a parking place or places upon land in private ownership if the owner or occupier of such land consents.
(3) The Deputy Commissioner of Police may, with the consent of the owner or occupier of any place of assembly or public resort, authorise any police officer in uniform to regulate the movement of traffic in such place.
(4) Any person who —
(a)
contravenes any order made under this section; or
(b)
neglects or refuses to stop a vehicle or to make it proceed in or keep to a particular line of traffic or neglects or refuses himself to proceed in or keep to a particular line of traffic when directed to do so by a police officer authorised under this section to regulate traffic,
shall be guilty of an offence.
(5) Police orders issued under this section shall be published in the Gazette and may be published in such other manner as the Deputy Commissioner of Police may think fit.