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Criminal Tribes.
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- reformatory settlement shall be employed, the rate at which they shall be paid, and the disposal, for the benefit of such persons, of the surplus proceeds of their labour; and
- (o) the discipline to which persons endeavouring to escape from any industrial, agricultural or reformatory settlement or school, or otherwise offending against the rules for the time being in force, shall be subject, the periodical visitation of such settlement or school and the removal from it of such persons as it shall seem expedient to remove.
Penalties and Procedure.
Penalties for failure to comply with forms of notice under section 5 or section 7. 21. Whoever, being a member of a criminal tribe, without lawful excuse, the burden of proving which shall lie upon him,—
- (a) fails to appear in compliance with a notice issued under section 5 or section 7, or
- (b) intentionally omits to furnish any information required under either of those sections, or,
- (c) when required to furnish information under either of those sections, furnishes as true any information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false, or
- (d) refuses to allow his finger-impressions to be taken by any person acting under an order passed under section 9,
may he arrested without warrant, and shall be punishable with imprisonment for a tern which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, or with both.
Penalties for breach of rules. 22. (1) Whoever, being a registered member of a criminal tribe, contravenes a rule made under clause (e), clause (g) or clause (h) of section 20 shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend,—
- (a) on a first conviction, to one year,
- (b) on a second conviction, to two years, and
- (c) on any subsequent conviction, to three years,
or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.
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