(1) Any authorised officer may arrest without warrant any person who is found begging in contravention of section 3.
(2) Any person arrested under sub-section (1) shall be informed as soon as may be, of the grounds for such arrest, and shall be produced before the nearest court 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, together with a report explaining the circumstances under which the arrest was made.
(3) The court shall, as soon as may be, order the person to be taken before a medical officer, not below the Power to produce the person found begging before a court.
Begging in public place an offence.
[Act No.12 of 1977] 5 rank of an Assistant Surgeon, and the medical officer shall, after examining such person, prepare and forward a medical report to the court regarding the age and physical capacity for ordinary manual labour of such person.
(4) The medical officer referred to in sub-section (3) shall state in the medical report referred to therein, inter alia-
(a) the age and sex of the person;
(b) whether the person is suffering from leprosy;
(c) from what, if any, communicable disease other than leprosy, the person is suffering;
(d) whether the person is an idiot or of un-sound mind; and
(e) what is the general state of health and bodily condition of the person and for which kind of work, if any, he is fit.