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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Foreigners Order, 1948 Section 5A

Power to Examine Persons

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Foreigners Order, 1948 Section 5A is part of Foreigners Order, 1948 - Power to Examine Persons. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

1[5A. Power to examine persons.--

The civil authority may examine any person who seeks leave to enter India or to depart therefrom or during his stay in India for the purposes of the Foreigners Act, 1946, or of any order made thereunder; and it shall be the duty of every such person to furnish to the civil authority such information in such manner and at such times, as that authority may require.]

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1. Inserted by S.R.O. 2675, dated 14th August, 1954.

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Section Section 5A of the Foreigners Order, 1948 (Power to Examine Persons) is reproduced on this page as part of the Foreigners Order, 1948. 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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