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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Lepers Act, 1898 Section 14C

POWER TO ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT LEPER FOUND IN NOTIFIED AREA

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Lepers Act, 1898 Section 14C is part of Lepers Act, 1898 - POWER TO ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT LEPER FOUND IN NOTIFIED AREA. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

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.

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What does Lepers Act, 1898 Section 14C provide?

Section Section 14C of the Lepers Act, 1898 (POWER TO ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT LEPER FOUND IN NOTIFIED AREA) is reproduced on this page as part of the Lepers Act, 1898. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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