(1) The Commissioner or the District Magistrate or the Tribunal may for the purpose of –
(a) securing the attendance of any person against whom an order is proposed to be made under section 3 or has been made but its operation has been stayed under section 6; or
(b) securing the due observance of any direction, requirements, prohibition, restriction or condition specified Extension of period of order.
Appeal.
Recognizance for certain purposes.
[Act No.9 of 1980] 7 in an order made in respect of any person under section 3, section 4, section 5 or section 6; require such person to enter into a bond, with or without sureties.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions,-
(a) the Commissioner or the District Magistrate while issuing notice to any person under sub-section (1) of section 3 may issue a warrant for his arrest with endorsement thereon of a direction in terms of the provisions of section 71 of the Code and the provisions of sections 70 to 89 of the Code shall, so far as may be, apply in relation to such warrant as if the Commissioner or the District Magistrate, as the case may be, were the Court of a Magistrate;
(b) if any person who is required to execute a bond for the observance of any direction, requirement, prohibition, restriction or condition fails to do so, he shall be committed to prison, or, if he is already in prison, be detained in prison until the period for which the direction, requirement, prohibition, restriction, or condition is to operate or until within such period he executes the bonds with or without sureties, as the case may be, in terms of the order, and the provisions of sections 119 to 124 of the Code shall mutatis mutandis apply as if the Commissioner or the District Magistrate or the Tribunal were the Court of a Magistrate;
(c) the provisions of Chapter XXXIII of the Code relating to bonds shall mutatis mutandis apply in relation to all bonds executed under this section as if the Commissioner or the District Magistrate or the Tribunal were the Court of Magistrate.
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8. The Commissioner or the District Magistrate or the Tribunal may for the purpose of satisfying himself or itself as to whether the conditions necessary for the making or confirmation of an order under section 3 or section 6 exist or not, take into consideration any evidence which he or it considers to have probative value, and the provisions of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 shall not apply.
9. The Commissioner or the District Magistrate may at any time rescind an order made under section 3, whether or not such order was confirmed on appeal under section 6.
10. Whoever contravenes any order made under section 3, section 4, section 5 or section 6 shall be punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years but shall not be less than six months, and with fine which may extend to three thousand rupees but shall not be less than one thousand rupees.