bailable 'offences, it may, by notification in the local official Gazette, declare that such tribe, gang or class or, as the case may be, that such part of the tribe, gang or class is a criminal tribe for the purposes of this Act.
Registration of Members of criminal tribes.
Registration of Members of Criminal Tribes. 4. The Local Government nay direct the District Magistrate to make or to cause to be made a register of the members of any criminal tribe, or part of a criminal tribe, within his district.
Procedure in making register. 5. Upon receiving such direction, the District Magistrate shall publish notice in the prescribed manner at the place where the register is to be made and at such other places as he may think fit, calling upon all the members of the criminal tribe or part, as the case may be,—
- (a) to appear at a time and place therein specified before a person appointed by him in this behalf;
- (b) to give to that person such information as may be necessary to enable him to make the register; and
- (c) to allow their finger-impressions to be recorded:
Provided that the District Magistrate may exempt any member from registration and may cancel any such exemption.
Charge of register. 6. The register; when made, shall be placed in the keeping of the Superintendent of Police, who shall, from time to time, report to the District Magistrate any alterations which ought in his opinion to be made therein, either by way of addition or erasure.
Alterations in register. 7. (1) After the register has been placed in the keeping of the Superintendent of Police, no person's name shall be added to the register, and no registration shall be cancelled, except by, or under an order in writing of, the District Magistrate.
(2) Before the name of any person is added to the register under this section, the Magistrate shall give notice in the prescribed manner to the persons concerned—
- (a) to appear before him or an authority appointed by him in this behalf at a time and place therein specified;
