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Section 6A: Certificate, arms, etc., to be delivered up by person ceasing to be member.

The Maharashtra Home Guards Act.State Act of Maharashtra · Act 3 of 1947

[6A. Certificate, arms, etc., to be delivered up by person ceasing to be member.- (1) Every person who for any reason ceases to be a member of the Home Guards shall forthwith deliver up to the Commandant or to such person and at such place as the Commandant may direct, his certificate of appointment or of office and the arms, accoutrements, clothing and other necessaries which have been furnished to him as such member.

(2) Any Magistrate, and for special reasons which shall be recorded in writing at any time, any police officer not below the rank of a Deputy Commissioner for Police in Greater Bombay and Assistant or Deputy Superintendent of police elsewhere, may issue a warrant to search for and seize, wherever they may be found any certificate, arms, accoutrements, clothing or other necessaries not so delivered up. Every warrant so issued shall be executed in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (V of 1898), by a police officer or if the Magistrate or the police officer issuing the warrant so directs by any other person.

(3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to apply to any article which under the orders of the Commandant General has become the property of the person to whom the same was furnished.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Maharashtra Home Guards Act.
Section6A
Marginal noteCertificate, arms, etc., to be delivered up by person ceasing to be member.
JurisdictionState of Maharashtra
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • inserted, Bom. 11 of 1950. Section 6A and 6B were inserted by Bom. 11 of 1950, s. 6.
  • other. Now see Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).

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