Act Info:
Preamble1 - LEPERS ACT, 1898
Section1 - Title extent and commencement
Section2 - Definitions
Section3 - Appointment of leper asylums by State Government
Section4 - Appointment of Inspectors of Lepers and Superintendents of Asylums
Section5 - Constitution of Board
Section6 - Arrest of pauper lepers
Section7 - Person arrested how to be dealt with
Section8 - Procedure with regard to pauper lepers
Section9 - Power to prohibit lepers from following certain trades and doing certain acts
Section10 - Conviction after previous conviction
Section11 - Penalty on person employing lepers in prohibited trade
Section12 - Re-arrest of escaped lepers
Section13 - Order of discharge by Board
Section14 - Order of discharge by Board
Section15 - Appeals
Section16 - Power of the State Government to make rules
Section17 - Power to local authorities to expend funds and appropriate property to asylums
Section18 - Protection to person acting bona fide under act
Section19 - Lepers from any part of India to which this Act does not extend
ScheduleI - SCHEDULE
Amending ActI - LEPERS (DELHI, ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS, LAKSHADWEEP, DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI AND CHANDIGARH REPEAL) ACT, 1983