(1) This Act may be called the Bombay Habit~ Offenders .Act, 1959. ~tti~
(2) It extends to the whole of tht ..st.h<j 6;~' ~
(3) It shall come into force on such date 88 the State Government m.ay, by notificatioo iD the CfjficitJl GafJttl8, appoint.
2. In this Act, unlessthe context otherwiserequUes,- Vof (a) •• Code " ~e~s the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898;
1898.
(6) "(lQrrective settlement" means any plao6 established, approved or certified as a corrective settlement under section 14 ;
f l\:licl o ,~~ "'Atm ••• (.) U habitual offender n means any person who, ~iDCe his attahring the age of eiglheD years,- ~ Definitions.
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(j) ••prescribed » mtaD8 pzescribed by iules made UDder this Act ;
(g) •• regist.ered ofleJlder •• tneanB a habitual otllDder !egistered or re--xegi.stered under this Act ;
Jp) •• 8Cheduled of1'enoo •• means an oifence specified in the Schedule or an offenoo analogous th~reto ;
• , CHAPTER II. • I powwol State ~ tudiNct ~~ ~ REGISTRATION 01' HABITUAL OPRNDEBS AND RlCSTRIOTION 01' THEIl\ MovEDNT8.
3. The State Govemment may direct the District Magistrate to make a register of habitual ofFenders-withiJJ"his district) by entering therein the names and other prescribed partiCulars of such offenders.
1'rocled1ml tor 4. For the pJUPose of carrying out the dirootion given Under section 3, the=-a District Magistrate or any offioor appointed by him in this 'behalf shall, by notice in the prescribed ft rID to be serv~d in the prescribed manner, call upon every habitual offeDdIaI. offender in the district-
(a) to appear before him at a time and place specified in the notice ;
(b) to furnish such iniormati('D 88 may be necessaiY to enable him to enter the name and other prescribed particulars of the habitual offender in tl;le register; and (~) to allow the finger and palm impressions, foot-prints and photographs of the habitual offender to be ta1ceD:
flroVid:edt~ the name and other prescribed p.!rtioulars of a habitual offender shall not he ellter6d in the register,funle he has bi8n gh-en reasonAble oppo1tunity of showing cause why such entry should not be made.=~ 5. (1) The register shall be placed in the keeping of the Superintendent of P,)1iceat___ Of,lie district wlIo shall, frojn time to time, repott to the District ~strate any tbeniD. &1teiations whioh ought, in ljis opinion, to be made therein.
(2) A.ft;er the register has been placed in the keeping of the Superintendent of Police no' fr~try s.hall be made in the register, nor shall any entty be cancelled, ~xcept by or under, an order in writing of the DiatJict ~ate.
6. The District Magistrate, or any officer appointed by him in this behalf, may at.any time order the.r and pWl impressions. foot..~inta and ~otographs, of any registered oft'ender to be taken.
li931 'I. (1) Every registered offender IbU notify to such authority, and manner, 88 may be preacribed. any cMnge or iatended clumge cif his residence:
in such RegiIfered ordinary offenders to notify llbaDge of rtldiden(;6 • ~~~rl Ptovided that where 81lch oft'ender eMngeA, or intends to change, his ordinary them861v68 • •residence to another district (wh.etli8rwithin the State or not) he shall notify the eltange or intended change to the District Magistrate.
(2) The Dmmct 1rfa.giBtt&temay, by order in writing, direct that any registered -«ender shaD- (Q) report himself once in each month, or where tjbe District Magistrate for reuons specified in the order so directs, more frequently, to such authority, and in 8U<'Jl m~r, as may be ~ ~ the order, and
(b) n9tify any absence or intended absence from his ordkary resUlenoeto the aforesaid authority: .
Provided that the District :Magistrate may ~xempt any such offender from notifying any absencp or inter.ded absence from his ordinary residence for such p'&iod, and under such conditions, as to him appear r~nab1e.