Lepers Act : POWER TO ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT LEPER FOUND IN NOTIFIED AREA Indian Bare Acts :

Lepers Act,1898

Act No : 3

Section : POWER TO ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT LEPER FOUND IN NOTIFIED AREA

SECTION 14C: POWER TO ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT LEPER FOUND IN NOTIFIED AREA

(1) Any police officer or any person specially empowered by the State Government by order in writing in this behalf may arrest without a warrant any person, who appears to him to be a leper and who is found to be within the limits of the notified area in contravention of the order issued under section l4A.

(2) Such police officer or other person shall forthwith take or send the person so arrested to the nearest convenient segregation camp.

Provided that no person so arrested shall be detained in custody or in the segregation camp without the order of the nearest Magistrate for longer period than twenty-four hours from the time of arrest exclusive of the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the Court of such Magistrate.