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Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959, (Maharashtra) Section 5

Title: Summary Inquiry in Respect of Persons Found Begging and their Detention

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1959

.....aforesaid is a child, being a child who is not under the age of five years, the Court shall forward him to a Juvenile Court, and shall not made any order under sub-section (5). The Juvenile Court shall deal with the child under section 40 of the Bombay Children Act, 1948, as if the child were a person described in clause (a) of that section. For the purpose of ascertaining the age of the person, the Court may, if necessary cause the beggar to be examined by a medical officer. NOTES The problem of beggars had became extremely acute, particularly in major urban centres like Bombay, Poona, Nagpur, Sholapur. etc. The total population of beggars all over the State of Maharashtra was estimated at about 1.50,000 of which about 75,000 were estimated to be in Greater Bombay alone. Of these 75,000 about 45.000 were estimated to be able-bodied beggars. In order to obviate the nuisance of beggars from Greater Bombay first and then from other areas in the State Government had decided to undertake immediately a crash programme for massive arrests of beggars in Greater Bombay and for taking necessary proceedings against them under the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959. Where the.....

Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959, (Maharashtra) Preamble

Title: the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1959

THE BOMBAY PREVENTION OF BEGGING ACT, 1959 [Act No. 10 of 1960]1 [8th February, 1960] PREAMBLE An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to beggars for the purpose of making uniform and better provision for the prevention of begging in the State of Bombay and for matters connected therewith. WHEREAS it is expedient to make uniform and better provision for the prevention of begging in the State of Bombay; for the detention, training and employment of beggars and their dependants in certain institutions; for the custody, trial and punishment of beggar offenders; and for these and other purposes to consolidate and amend the law relating to beggars; It is hereby enacted in the Tenth Year of the Republic of India as follows :- NOTES With a view to securing uniformity in the law relating to beggars and with a view to checking the growing problem of beggars and taking effective measures for their rehabilitation, it was proposed to make a uniform and better provision for the prevention of beggary in the State by enacting a single law on the subject and to repeal the corresponding laws prevailing in the different parts of the State. This Act was designed to achieve.....

Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959, (Maharashtra) Section 11

Title: Penalty for Employing or Causing Persons to Beg or Using Them for Purposes of Begging

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1959

Whoever employs or causes, any person to 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.

Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959, (Maharashtra) Section 4

Title: Power to Require Person Found Begging to Appear Before Court

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1959

(1) Any police officer, or other person authorised in this behalf in accordance with rules make by the State Government, may arrest without a warrant any person who is found begging : Provided that, no person entering on any private premises for the purpose of soliciting or receiving alms shall be so arrested or shall be liable to any proceedings under this Act, except upon a complaint by the occupier of the premises. (2) Such Police Officer or other person shall take or send the person so arrested to a Court. (3) The provisions of section 61 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, shall apply to every arrest under this section, and the officer in charge of the police station or section shall cause the arrested person to be kept in the prescribed manner until he can be brought before a Court.

Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959, (Maharashtra) Section 6

Title: Penalty for Begging After Detention as Beggar

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1959

(1) Whoever, having been previously detained in a Certified Institution under this Act is found begging, shall on conviction be punished as hereinafter in this section provided. (2) When a person is convicted for the first time under sub-section (1) the Court shall order him to be detained in a, Certified Institution for a period of not less than two years and not more than three years. (3) When a person is convicted for the second or subsequent time under sub-section (1), the Court shall order him to be detained for a period of ten years in a Certified Institution, and may convert any period of such detention (not exceeding two years) into a sentence of imprisonment extending to a like period.

The Tamil Nadu Prevention of Begging Act, 1945 Complete Act

State: Tamil Nadu

Year: 1945

.....provisions of sections 10-A, 12-A and 23 shall apply if the State Government have notified any leper asylum appointed under section 3 of the Lepers Act, 1898 (Central Act III of 1898) as a special home under clause (2) section 2] (Substituted for original section 5 by the Adaptation (Amendment) Order of 1950) 5. Persons arrested for offence under section 3 to be examined by medical officer. " Any person arrested by a Police officer for an offence punishable under section 3 who in the opinion of such Police Officer has attained the age of (Substituted by section 6 of the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Begging (Amendment) Act, 1964 (Tamil Nadu Act 40 of 1964)) [eighteen years] shall be informed, as soon as may be, of the grounds for such arrest, and shall be produced before the nearest Magistrate within a period of twenty-four hours of such arrest excluding the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the Court of the Magistrate; and no such persons shall be detained in custody beyond the said period without the authority of a Magistrate. The Magistrate shall without delay order the person to be taken before a medical officer not below the rank of Assistant Surgeon;.....

The Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1959

THE BOMBAY PREVENTION OF BEGGING ACT, 1959 THE BOMBAY PREVENTION OF BEGGING ACT, 1959 [BOMBAY ACT No. X OF 1960]1 [8th February 1960] Adapted and modified by the Maharashtra Adaptation of Laws (State and Concurrent Subjects) Order, 1960 Amended by Mah. 30 of 1976 15 of 1976 (13-2-1976).3 An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to beggars for the purpose of making uniform and better provision for the prevention of begging in the State of Bombay and for matters connected therewith WHEREAS it is expedient to make uniform and better provision for the prevention of begging in the State of Bombay; for the detention, training and employment of beggars and their dependents in certain institutions; for the custody, trial and punishment of beggar offenders; and for these and other purposes to consolidate and amend the law relating to beggars; It is hereby enacted in the Tenth Year of the Republic of India as follows: With a view to securing uniformity in the law relating to beggars and with a view to checking the growing problem of beggars and taking effective measures for their rehabilitation, it was proposed to make a uniform and better precision for the prevention.....

Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959, (Maharashtra) Schedule

Title: Schedule

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1959

.....and Berar Act II of 1950 Central Provinces and Berar Local Government Act, 1948 Chapter XXXI C.P. and Berar Act II of 1922 Saurashtra Police Act, 1954 Section 206 C. P. and Berar Act XXXVIII of 1948 Bombay District Police Act, 1890 as applied to the Kutch area of the Section 129 Sau. Act XVIII of 1954 State of Bombay by the Kutch (Application of Section 104 Bom. IV of 1890 Laws) Order, 1949. Clause (2) of section 61 NOTIFICATIONS No. INT 4459-M dt. 18.3.1960.--In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (3) of section 1 of the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959 (Bom. X of 1960), the Government if Bombay hereby appoints the 1st April, 1960 to be the date on which the said Act shall come into force in the following areas :- (a) "Greater Bombay" as defined in the Bombay General Clause Act, 1904. (b) The Part of the Thana Taluka which is encircled by the Bessein-Thana Creek including the territorial waters appertaining thereto; (c) The limits of Railway lands from a point immediately beyond the Thana Railway Station to the Kalyan Station inclusive on the Central Railway; and (d) The limits of Railway lands from a point immediately.....

Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959, (Maharashtra) Section 1

Title: Short Title, Extent, Commencement and Repeal of Corresponding Laws and Provisions

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1959

..... G.N., L. & S.W.D., No. INT. 4459-M, dated 8th March, 1950 (M.G.G., Pt. IV-B, p.264) In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (3) of section 1 of the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959 (Bom. X of 1950), the Government of Bombay hereby appoints the 1st April, 1960 to be the date on which the said Act shall come into force in the following areas:- (a) "Greater Bombay" as defined in the Bombay General Clauses Act, 1904; (b) The part of Thana taluka which is encircled by the Bessein-Thana Creek including the territorial waters appertaining thereto; (c) The limits of Railway lands from a point immediately beyond the Bhayander Railway Station to the Kalyan Station inclusive on the Central Railway; and (d) The limits of Railway lands from a point immediately beyond the Bhayander Railway Station to the Virar Railway Station includes on the Western Railway; (e) The "Elephanta Caves" comprised in Survey No. 65 in village Gharapuri in Urban Mahal of the Kolaba District; (f) The City of Ahmedabad within the meaning of the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporation Act, 1949. G.N., E. & S.W.D., No. BBA. 4657-N, dated 6th February, 1964.....

Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 363A

Title: Kidnapping or Maiming a Minor for Purposes of Begging

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....dancing, fortune-telling, performing tricks or selling articles or otherwise; (ii) entering on any private premises for the purpose of soliciting or receiving alms; (iii) exposing or exhibiting, with the object of obtaining or extorting alms, any sore, wound, injury, deformity or disease, whether of himself or of any other person or of an animal; (iv) using a minor as an exhibit for the purpose of soliciting or receiving alms; (b) 'minor' means-- (i) in the case of a male, a person under sixteen years of age; and (ii) in the case of a female, a person under eighteen years of age.] _______________________ 1. Inserted by Act 52 of 1959, section 2 (w.e.f. 15-1-1960).