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Section 8: Action to be taken when a registered offender changes his ordinary residence

The Karnataka Habitual Offenders Act, 1961State Act of Karnataka · Act 24 of 1961

(1) Where any registered offender changes his ordinary residence to another district within the 1[State of Karnataka]1, the District Magistrate of the District in which the offender is registered, shall inform the District Magistrate of the other district about such change, and at the same time, furnish him with the name and other particulars of the registered offender.

1. Adapted by the Karnataka Adaptations of Laws Order 1973 w.e.f. 1.11.1973

(2) On the receipt of such information, the District Magistrate of the other district, shall enter in his register the name and other particulars of the registered offender and inform the District Magistrate of the first district about such registration and thereupon such District Magistrate shall cancel from his Register the entry relating to that offender.

(3) Where a registered offender changes his ordinary residence to another district, outside the 1[State of Karnataka]1, the District Magistrate of the first district shall, while furnishing the District Magistrate of the other district, with the name and the other particulars of the registered offender, make a request to that District Magistrate that he may be informed of the steps, if any, which may have been taken in relation to the offender under any law for the time being in force in that other district; and upon receipt of such information, the District Magistrate of the first district shall cancel from his Register the entry relating to that offender.

(4) Upon the entry of the name and other particulars of the registered offender in the Register under sub-section (2), the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, shall apply to him as if he has been registered, in pursuance of a direction given under section 3, in the Register of the district to which he has changed his ordinary residence.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Karnataka Habitual Offenders Act, 1961
Section8
Marginal noteAction to be taken when a registered offender changes his ordinary residence
JurisdictionState of Karnataka
StatusIn force as published by the source

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