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THE HARYANA PREVENTION OF BEGGARY

ACT, 1971

TaBLE OF CONTENTS Page

. Short title, extent and commencement.

. Definitions.

. Power Lo arrest. Summary inquiry beforc detention.

. Penalty for begging after detention.

. Power of Court to detain dependents.

. Report of Medical Officer before committal.

. Punishment for escape from Certified Institution.

. Penalty for employing persons for begging.

. Bonds.

. Appeal.

. Power to release.

. Reception Centres. Certified Institutions.

. Search in Reception Centres and Certified lnsrilnlkons.

. Management and discipline.

. Disciplinary imprisonment.

. Appointment of Chief Tnspector and other authorities.

. Transter from one Reception Ceatre or Certified Institution 10 another.

. Release on licence,

21. Revocation of licence.

. Procedure on order of detention or sentence of imprisnnment

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60 PREVENTION OF BEGGARY [1971: Haryané Act 9 Sections :

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23. Medical Examination and detention of leprosy patients and lunatics.

24. Transfer between Certified Institutions. 25, Seizure and disposal of animals.

26. Offences o be cognizable and non-bailable.

27. Persons to be deemed public scrvants.

28. Visiting Commiuee.

29. Advisory Committee.

30. Protection of action lal'('en under this Act.

31. Power to make rules.

32. Removal of difficulties.

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1971 : Haryana Act 9] PREVENTION OF BEGGARY 61 'THE HAYANA PREVENTION OF BEGGARY ACT, i971 (Harvana AcT No. 9 oF 1971)

{Received the assent of t he Governor of Haryana on the 15th of March, 1971 and first published in the Haryana Governmenr Gazette (Extraordinary),

of March 18, 1971}

i 2 3 . 4

Year No. Short title 'Whether repealed or otherwise ) " affected by Legislation

0717 9 -The Haryana Amended by Haryana Act 27 of 19752 Prevention of .

Beggary

Act, 1971

AN

ACT

to provide for the prevemiion of begging, detention, training and employment of beggars and their dependents in Certified Instituiion and the custody, trial and punishment of beggar ojfemlez 'S,

BE it enacted by the LC"lSldll.lrE of the State of H.uydnA in the Twenty-second Year of the Republic of India, as follows :—

1. (1) This Act may be called the Hayana Prevention of Beggary ~ Short title, Act, 1971. extent and

: ' : commence-

(2) Ttextends to the whulc of the Siate of Haryana. ment.

(3) Ttshall come into force in any area of the State, on such date or dates as the State Government may by notification appoint in this behalf for that area.

2. In this Act, unless the context othewise requires :— Definitions. () "beggar" means any pefébn who is found begging ;

1. For statement of Objects and Reasons, see Haryana Government Gazette (Extraordinary), 1971, page 167.

2. For sttement of Objects and Reasons, see Huryana Government Gazette (Extraordinary), dated thet8-7-1975, page 840.

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62 PREVENTION OF BEGGARY [1971 : Haryana Act9 (b). "begging" means—

(7) soliciting or receiving alms in a public place whether or nct under any pretence, such as singiug, dancing, fortune-telling. performing trncks or selling articles :

(i7) havingno visible means of subsistence and wandering about or remaining in any public place in such condition or manner as makes it likely that the person domg 50 exists by soliciting or receiving alms ;

"(iii) entering on any private premises for the purpose of soliciting or receiving alms ;

(iv) exposing or exhibiting, with the object of obtaining or extorting alms. any sore, wound, injury, deformity or disease whether of a human being or of un animal ; or

(v) allowing oneself to be used as an exhibit for the purpose of soliciting or receiving alms ;

- but does not inciude soliciting or receiving money or food or gifts for a purpsoe authorised by any law, or authorised in the manner prescribed ;

(c) "Ceruified Instituiion" means any institution which the State Government provides and maintains for the detention, training and employment of beggars and their dependents

. and includes a Certified Home and Speciat Home ;

(d) "Centified Home" meuns a home certified by the State Government or by uny subordinate authority empowered by it in this behalf to be a fit place for the reception and detention of beggars, suffering from leprosy or any other infectious or contagious disease notified in this behalf by the State Government ;

{e) "Chief Ifispcctér" means the person appointed to be the : Chief Inspector of Certified Institutions under section 18-; '{{f) "child" means a child as defined in clausé (d} ol section 2 of the H.lrydna Chl Idren Act, 1974 ;

buhsmuu:d by Haryana Act 27 of 1975,

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(g) "Court™ means the court of a Judicial Magistrate of any. class exercising criminal jurisdiction in the area in which this Act ts in force ;

(h) "Guardian" mcans a person who looks after or takes care of a child in the absence of, oc in the event of the death of his parents ;

(i) "imprisonment" means rigérous or simple imprisonment as described in section 53 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (XLV of 1860) ;

) "Parent" means the father or the mother of a child ;

(k) "Police Officer" means a police officer not below the rank of an Assistant Sub-Inspector ;

(1) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; c '

(m) "Probation Officer means an officer appointed to be a Probation Officer under section 18 ;

(n) "public place™ means and includcsiuvny place or precincts thereof to which for the time being the public have or are permnitted to have an access, whether an payment or otherwise and includes a passenger bus and a railway compartment ;

(0} "Reception Centre™ means an institution for the reception and temporary detention of beggars provided by the State Government, or certified to be such under section 13 ;

(p) "Special Home" means a home notified by the Stale Government as suitable for the reception and detention of beggars. not physically capable of doing manual labour but not suffering from leprosy or any other infecttous or contagious disease ; and -

{¢) "Superintendent" means a Superintendent of 2 Reception Centre or a Certified Institution, as the case may be.

3. (1) Any Police Officer or other person authorised in ihis behaif by the State Government may arrest withoul warrant any beggar : :

Power to

arrest.

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Summary inquiry before detention.

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. Provided that no person found begging on any premises, not being a public place shall be so arrested or shall be liable to any proceedings under this Act except on a complaint made by the occupier of such premises.

(2) Such Police Officer or other person shall take or send the person so arrested to the nearest police station :

Provided that the other person may hand him over to a Police Officer if he finds it convenienl.

(3) The provisions of '[section 57 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973) shall apply to arrest made under this section and the officer-in-charge of the police station shall cause the arrested person (o be kept in the prescribed manaer until he is brought before a court.

4. (1) Where a person is brought before a court under section 3, the court shall make a summary inquiry in the prescribed manner as regards the allegation that he was found begging.

(2) If the inquiry referred to in sub-section (/) cannot be completed forthwith, the court may adjoum it from lime to time and order the person to be remanded to such place and custody as may be convenient or release him on a bail bond, with or without sureties.

(3) If on making the inquiry referred (o in sub-section (1), the court is pot satisfied that the person was found begging it shall order that such person be released forthwith.

(4) If, on making the inquiry referred to in sub-section (7}, the court is satisfied that such person was found begging it shall record a finding that the person is a beggar and convict him accordingly.

(5) The court shat) order the 'person convicted under sub- section (4) to be detained in a Certified Institution in accordance with the provisions of section 7 for a period of not less thun one year and not more than two years :

Provided that if the court is satisfied from the circumstances of the case that such person is not likely to beg again, it may release him after due admonition on a bond for his abstaining from begging, being executed with or without suretics, as the court may require, by the beggar or any other person whom the court considers suitable :

Provided further that if the beggar is a minor, the bond shall be with sureties.

I. Substituled by Haryana Act 27 af 1975,

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l97i . Har)l'ana Act 9] PREVENTION OF BEGGARY 63

(6) In passing an order under this section, the court shail have regard to the following considerations :-—

(a) the age and character of the beggar :

(b) the circumstances and conditions in which the beggar is living;

{c) report, if any, made by the Probation Officer ; and

(d) such other matters as may, in the opinion of the court, require to be taken into consideration in the interest of the beggar. :

(7) The report of the Probation Officer or any other repk»n considered by the court shall be treated as confidential :

Provided that if such report retates to the character, health or conduct of, or the circumstances and conditions in which the beggar is living, the court may if it thinks expedient'so to do communicate the substance thereof to the heggar or, if the beggar is dependent to his parents or guardian, if any. and may give the beggar or the parent or guardian, as the case may be, an opportunity of producing evidence which may be relevant to the matters stated in the report.

. (8} A cepy of the order made under sub-section (5) shall be sent forthwith by the court to the Chief Inspector.

(9) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section, when the persan found to be a beggar as aforesaid is a child, the court shatl not make any order under sub-section (5) but forward the child to '[a Board constituted under section 3 of the Haryana Children Act, 1974], for being dealt with under that Act. For the purposc of ascertaining the age of the beggar, the court muy, if necessaty, cause him to be examined by a medicul officer.

5. (1) Whoever having been previously detained in a Certified Institution in accordance with the provisions of section 4 is found begging again shall on conviction be punishablc as is hereinafter provided in this section.

(2) When a person is convicted for the second time the court shall order him 1o be detained in a Certified Institution for 2 period not Ie:s than one year and not more than three years. .

f. Substituted by Haryuna Act 27 af 1975,

Penalty

begging

detentio

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Power of courl 0 detaia dependents. Report of Medical

Officer before committal.

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. (3) When a person is convicted for the third or subsequent tlme the court shall order him to be detained for a periad of five years in - the Certified Institution and may convert any period of such detention, noi exceeding one year, into a sentence of imprisonment :

Provided that the total period-of detention dnd imprisonment, if any, shall noi exceed five years.

6. (1) 'When the court has ordered the detention of a beggar in a Certified Institution under section 4 orsection 5, it may after making such inquiry as it thinks fit, order any person who is wholly dependent on such beggar to be detained in a Certified Institution for a like period :

Provided that before such an order is made such dependent ot his pareats or guardian, if any, as the case may be, shall be given an opportunity of showing cause why it should not be made.

(2) Where the dependent person is a child above the age of five years, -he_pg_un shall forward him to '[a Board constituied under section 3 of the Haryana Children Act, 1974, for being dealt with under that Act] .. ,

7. (1) The court which fmds 2 person to be guilty under section 4 or section 5 shall, beforc passing any sentence of his committai to'a Certified Institution, send such person to the medical officer incharge of the local Civil Hospital or to the medical officer attached to a Certified Institution, if any, and cali fora report about his age, physical capacity for ordinary manual labour and also whether 'he is suffering from any mfecuous or conlaglous disease.

: (2) If the medlcal officer certifies that the said, person is not a chlld, is physicaily capable of ordinary manual labour and is not suffenng from any infectious or contagious disease, the court shalt pass a sentence for a committal of such person to a Certified Institution.

(3) If the medical officer reports that the said person is physically incapable of ordinary manual labour but is not suffering from any infectious or contagious disease, the court shall pass a sentence for committal of such person to a Special Home.

(4) If the medical officer reports that the said person is suffering from any infectious or contagious disease, the court shall pass a sentence for committal of such person to a Certified Home.

1. Subsiituted by Haryana Act 27 of 1975, -

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8. Whaever escapes, from a Certified Institution 1o which he has been committed cn conviction under the provisions of this Act before the expiry of the period for which he has been commitied, shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to three months.

9. Whoever employs-or causes any person lo solicit or receive alms, or whoever having the custody, charge or care of a child, connives at or encourages the employment or the causing of a child to solicit or receive alms or whoever uses another person as an exhibit for the purpose of begging, shall on conviction be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years but which shall not be less than one year.

10. The provisions of [Chapter XX'{IH of the Code of Cnmmdl Procedure, 1973}, shall so far as may be, apply to Donds taken under this Act. .

11. Anappeal orrevision shall lie as provided in '[Chapters XXIX and XXX of the Code of Criminal Procedure , 1973}, from any order of detention made under this Act. The period of detention shall be deemed to be a sentence of i |mpnconmenl for the same period.

12. Ifl'he State Governmenl atany time, of its own motion or on application made to it, is satisfied that a persen convicted under section 4 or section 5 and committed to a Centified Institution has been cured of the diseasc or is in a fit state of health 1o earn his living ar is otherwise fit to be discharged before the expiry of the period for which he has besn committed, the State Government may by order, direct that the person so detained shall be released subject to such restrictions and conditions, if any, as may, be specified in the order.

- 13. The State Government may provide and maintain one or more Reception Centres at such place or places as it thinks fit, and may cerlify any institution to be a Reception Centre for the purposes of this Act. : -

14. ({) The State Government may provide and maintain one or more Certified Institutions at such place or places as it thinks fit, and may certify any institution to be a Certified Institution for the purposes of this Act. Any such Certified Institution may also provide for the 'teaching of agricultural, industrial and other pursuits, and for the general education and medical care of the inmates.

1. Substituted by Haryana Act 27 of 1975. Punishme

for cscapt

from

Certified

Instituvion

Penaley' fo

employin;

persan for

begging.

Bonds.

Appeal.

Power to

retease.

Receptio

Centres.

Instittia

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Search in Reception Centres and Certified Institutions. Management and

discipline. Disciplindry imprison- ment.

Appointment of Chief

Inspector and other authorities.

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(2) Evevy Ceriified Institution and Reception Centre shall he under the charge of a Superintendent.

15. The Superintendent of a Reception Cenlre or a Ceriified Institution may order that any person received in the Reception Centre or Certified Institution shall be searched, cleansed, that his personal effects shall be inspected, and that any money or valuables found with or on the said person shall be kept in the custody of such Superintendent, and that any effects other than money or valuables so found shall be disposed of in the prescribed manner. Where an order of detention is passed by the cowt against any such person, the Supcrintendent may order that any moncy or valuables found with or on the said person shall be disposed of in the prescribed manner. Where the court passes an order other than an order of detention with regard to any such person, his money and valuables shall be returned to him and if his clothing has been destroyed, he shall be provided with fresh clothing. The cxpenses of providing such clothing shall be borne by the State Government :

Provided that a female shall be searched only by a fe'nnle with due decency.

16. Persons remanded to, or detained in, Reception Centres and Certified Institutions under this Act shall be subject to such rules of management and discipline including the imposition of macual or other |, - work and awarding of punishment as may, from time to time, be prescribed. .

17. Without prejudice to any disciplinary action that may be - taken under the scction immediately preceding, the Chief Inspector, the Inspector.or Superintendent tay report to the court the case of any person detained in a Cenified Institution who wilfully disobeys or neglects to comply with any rule referred to in that section ; and the court may thereupon, if satified that the said person has wilfully disobeyed or neglecled to comply with any such rule, convert the batance of the period of his detention in a Certified Institution or part thereof into a term of imprisonment.

18. (1) For carrying out the purposes of this Act the State Government may appoint a Chief Inspector of Certificd Institutions, Inspectors and such numbcr of Assistant Inspectors and Probation Officers as it thinks fit to assist the Chief Inspector, und every person so appointed to assist the Chief Inspector shall have the powers, and perform such of the duties of the Chicl Inspector, as the -State

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1971 : Haryana Act 9] PREVENTION GF BEGGARY 69 Government may direct, but shall act under the dircctions of the Chicf Inspector.

(2) Every Certified Institution shall, at least once in every six months; be inspected by the Chief Inspector.

19. (1) Subject to conditions prescribed, the Chief Inspector may direct any person detained in a Reception Centre or Cerlified [astitution 1o be transferred therefrom to another Reception Centre or Certified Institution in the State :

Provided that the total period of detention of such person shall in no case be increased by such transfer.

(2) In directing such transfer the Chief Inspector shall have regard to the medical certificate and Lhe directions, if any, made by the State Government, or court under section 23.

20. (7) Subjcct to such conditions as may be prescribed—

(a) the Chiel Inspector or the Superintendent of the Certified Institution may at any time grant permission to a person detained in a Certified Institution to absent himseif for short periads : and

(b) the Chief Inspector may at any time release such person conditionaily and issue him a licence thevefor.

(2) Any such licence shail be in force until the expiry of the term for which the person was ordered 1o be detained in a Certified Institution, unless sooner r(;voked.

(3) The period during which such person is absent from Certified Institution by permission or by licence as aforesaid, shall, for the purpose of computing his term of detention in a Certified Institution, be deemed to be part of his detention.

21. (1} Subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, the Chief Inspector may ut any time revoke licence issued under section 20, and thereupon the released person shall be detained in 2 Certified Institution until the expiry of the term for which he had been ordered to be detained.

(2) For the purpose of this section the Chief Inspectar may, if necessary, cause the released person to be arrested and sent fo the nearest Reception Centre together with a copy of the order of detention, and theretpon the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 22 may apply. Transfe

frem or

Recepti

Centre ¢

Certifie.

Instituti

another.

Reicase

liceace.

Revoca

of ticent

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Procedure on order of dletention or sentence of imprison- ment.

Medical

Examination and deten- tion of

ieprasy

paticats and tunatsics.

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22. (/) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) when a person has been ordered to be detained in a Certified Institution under section 4, seclion 5 or section 6, the court which ordered the detention shall forthwith forward him to the nearest Reception Centre with a copy of the order of detention. The person shall thereupon be handed over to the custody of the Superintenderit of the Reception Centre and shall be detained in the Reception Centre until he is sent lhcrefrom to a Certified Institution.

(2) When any such person has also been sentenced to imprisonment under sub-section (3) of section 5, or section 17, the court passing the scatence of imprisonment shall forthwith forward a warrant to a jail in which he is to be confined and shall forward him to such jai] with thc warrant together with a copy of the order of detention. After the sentence of imprisonment is fully executed, the officer executing it shall, if detention in a Certified Institution for any period remains to be undergone by such person, forward him forthwith together with a copy of the order of detention ta the nearest Reception Centre, and thereupon the provisions of sub-section (/) shall apply.

(3) in computing the perivd for which a person is ordered to be detained in a Certified Institution there shall be included the period for which he is detained in a4 Reception Centre under this section.

23. (1) Where it appears to the State Government that any beggar detained in a Certified Institution under any order of a court is of unsound mind or is a leper, the State Government may by any order setting forth the grounds of belief that the beggar is of unsound mind or a leper order his removal to a mental hospital or leper asylum or other place of safe custody, there to be képt and treated as State Gavernment directs during the remainder of the term for which he has been ordered to be detained or ,if on the expiration of that term it is certified by a medica! officer that it is necessary -for the safety of the beggar or of others that he should be further detained under medical care or treatment, he should be detamed until he is discharged according to law. .

(2) Where itappcars to the State Govcmmcm that the beggar has ceased to be of unsound mind, or is cured of leprosy, the State Government shall, if he is no longer liuble to be kept in custody, order him to be discharged. In cusc the beggar is still [iable to be kept in custody the State Government shall, by an order directed to Lhe person having charge of the beggar, send him to the Certified Institution from which he was removed.

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(3) The provisions of section 31 of the Indian Lunacy Act, 1912, and the provisions of section 14 of the Lcpers Act, 1898, shait apply 10 every beggar confined in a mental hospital or leper asylum under sub-section (/) after the expiration of the period for which he was ordered to be detained ; and the lime during which a beggar is confined in a mental hospital or leper asylum under that sub-section shall be reckoned as part of the period for \\hnch he muy have been ordered by the Court to be detained :

Provided that where the removal of a beggar due to unsoundness of mind or leprosy is immediately necessary, it shall be open to the authorities of the institution in which the beggar is detained to apply 1o a court having jurisdiction under the Indian Lunacy Act, 1912, or the Lepers Act, 1898, as the case may be, for an immediate order of his committal to a mental hospital or a leper asylum.

24. (1) The State Government may direct any person detained in a Certified Institution to be transferred therefrom to any Institution of a like nalure in any other part of India in respect of which provision similar to that in the State of Haryana is made by the State Government of that part under any Jaw in force therein :

Provided that no person shall be tr..msferrcd under this section to any otherState without the consent of the Government of that other State.

(2) The State Government may, in consultation with the Superintendent of any Centified Institution consent to the transfer to that Institution of any person in respect of whom an order of detention has been made by 2 competent authority in any other part of India of the nature of an order made under this Act directing him to be detained in a Certified Institution or Institution of a like nature and upon such transfer the provisions of this Act shall apply to such persons.

25. (1) Any Poiice Officer or other person effecting, under sub- section (1) of section 3, the arrest of a person who was found begging may seize any animal the sore, wound, injury, deformity or disease of which was exposed or ¢xhibited by such person with the object of soliciting or receiving aims.

(2) The Police Officer or other person effecting the seizure may remove such animal to any infirmary appointed under scction 35 of the Prevention of Cruclty 10 Animals Act, 1890, for detention therein pending orders of the Court under sub-section (3) 1 Transfe:

between

Cenifiec

Instituti

Seizure

disposal

animals

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Qifences 0 be cagai-' zzhle and non-bailable. Persons 0 be decmed public

servants. Visiting

Committce. Advisory

Commitiee.

72 PREVENTION OF BEGGARY [1971 : Haryana Act 9 Provided that the other person may hand over the seized animal to a Police Officer if he finds it convenient. '

(3) The Court befarc which the person found begging is brought may direct that the animal shall be teated and cared for in such infirmary until it is fit for discharge or that it shall be sent to a pinjrapole, or if the veterinary officer incharge of the area in which the-animal is found or such other veterinary officer as has been authorised by the rules made under section. {5 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1890, certifies that it is incurable or cannot be removed without cruelty, that it shall be destroyed ; and the Court may also order that after release from the infirmary the animal may be confiscated.

{4} An animal sent for care and treaiment to any infirmary shall not, unless the Court directs that it shall be sent to a pinjrapole or that it shall be destroyed, be released from such place except upon a certificate ofits fitness for discharge issued by the veterinary officer incharge of the area in which the infirmary is situated or such other veterinary officer as has been authorised by rules made under section 15 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1890.

26. The offences under sections 5 and 9 of this Act shall be cognizable and non-bailable.

27. All persons empowered to performi any function under this Act shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 {XLV of 1860).

28. For every Centified Institution, the State Government shall appoint a Visiting Committee in such manner as may be prescribed and assign such powers, duties and functions to the Committee as may be prescribed.

29. (1) The State Govemment may,for the whole or uny part of the State, constitute an Advisory Cormittee consisting of suv.h persons, not exceeding eleven in number, as it may appoint:

Provided that, where a lacal authority has agreed to render such financial assistance as the State Government may consider proper in each case, for the maintenance of Certified Institutions in which beggars _from the area subject to the jurisdiction of the local authority are

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1971 : Haryana Act 9] ;. PREVENTION OF BEGGARY 73 detained, the State Government shal! appoint such numbcer of persons as it deems fiton the Advisory Committee for such area representing the local authority.

(2) The Advisory Committee constituted under sub-section

(1) in any area, or any member thereof, may visit at all reasonable times any Certified nstitution, in which beggars from that area are detained.

(3) The Advisory Commillce may also,— .

(a) 1ender advice as regards management to any Certified Institution through the Chief Inspector or such other officer as the State Government may specify ;

(b) collect subscriptions towards the recurring as well as non-recurring expenses of any or all Certified Institutions within the local area or one in which beggars from that area are detained, and disburse the collections in the prescribed manner ;

(c) adv1se the Stale Govemment through the Chief Inspector, as regards' the certification of any institution as a Certified Institution or the decertification of any Certified Institution within the area ; and

(d) advise the State Government generally on the working of this Act in that area and particularly on any point referred to it by the Chief Inspector or any other officer specified by the State Government.

30. No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against any person empowered to perform any function under this Act for anything which is in gaod faith done or intended to be done under this Act.

31. (1) The State Government may, by notification and subject to the condition of previous publication make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

. (2) In parl.iculair, and without i:réjudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for,— *(a} the manner of authorising a purpose under clause (a) of section 2 ; '

Protection of

action taken

undcr this

Act.

Power v

make rules.

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(b) the manner of keeping persons arresied of animily scized under sub-section (1} of section 3 or sub- section (7} ul' sez,tlon 25, respectively ;

(c) the manner of makmg summary inquiry under sub- section (1) of section 4 ;

{d) the manner in which and the place at which the persons sentenced under section 5 and section 17 shall serve their periods of imprisonment ;

{e) the manaer of medical examination of béggars 3 {f) thc manner in which the effects and the money and valuables referred to in section 15 shall be disposed of : IR

(g) the management of Certified Institutions, the detention of 'persons committed to them and the maintenance, care, treatment and instructions of such persons including all

. matters relating to their labour and general conduct ;

(h) the management and discipline of persons detaincd in a Reception Centre or Certified Institution including the imposition of manual or other work and the awarding of punishment for breach of any rule made under this clause ;

(i) the powers and duties of the officers appointed under section 18 ;

. (j} the conditions subject to which the Chief Inspector may direct transfers undersection 19 ;

(k) the conditions subjectto whlch a person may be m]eassd on licénce under section 20';' ! e

(1) the conditions subject to which a licence may be revoked under sccuun 21

(m) the dwcharge of persons from Certified Institutions; {n) the nature, incidents and maximum periods of the punishment-to be imposed on persons detained in Certified Insmutmns for breach of any rules or for failure or negiect to accept :my employmcnt outside such institutions which may be §é¢ured for them ;

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(o) the manner of appointing a Visiting Committee under section 28.and the powers, duties and functions thereof ;

(p) the appointment of Visiting and Advisory Committees and assignment of powers, duties and functions of such committces ; and

(g) any other matter which has to be or may be prescribed.

(3) Any rule made under this section may provide that a contravention thereof shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to onc month, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with pottr.

(4) Every rule made under this section shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made before the State Legislature while it is in session for a total period of ten days, which may be comprised in one session or in two or mare successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the successive sessions aforesaid, the House agrees in making any modification in the rule or the House agrees that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or to be of no effect, as the case may be ; so however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under the rule. -

32. If any difficulty arises in giving effect 1o the provisions of this Act, the State Government may by order published in the Official Gazette make such provision or give such direction as appears to it to be necessary for removing such difficulty.

Removal of

difficulties.

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