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The Vagrancy Act, 1943 (Bengal Act)

( ACT NO. VII OF 1943 )

Chapter IV

PENALTIES AND MISCELLANEOUS

Power to make rules
28. (1) The Government may make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
 
 
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:-
 
 
 
 
(a) the purposes for which a person may collect money or ask for food or gifts referred to in clause (9) of section 2;
 
 
 
 
(b) the constitution of the Board referred to in sub-section (2) of section 3;
 
 
 
 
(c) the manner in which the summary inquiry referred to in sub-section (1) of section 7 shall be made;
 
 
 
 
(d) the manner in which a vagrant is to be sent to a receiving centre under sub-section (1) of section 8 and the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 10;
 
 
 
 
(e) the manner in which a medical officer is medically to examine a vagrant under sub-section (2) of section 8;
 
 
 
 
(f) the types of works for which a vagrant may be reported fit under clause (e) of sub-section (3) of section 8;
 
 
 
 
(g) the manner in which a vagrant is to be sent to a vagrants' home under sub-section (1) of section 9;
 
 
 
 
(h) the manner in and the extent to which the provisions of sub-section (3) of section 9 in respect of children may be relaxed;
 
 
 
 
(i) the manner in which the money found with or on, or the proceeds of the sale of other personal effects of, a vagrant may be applied to the welfare of vagrants under section 14;
 
 
 
 
(j) the management and discipline referred to in sub-section (1) of section 15 to which vagrants detained in receiving centres and vagrants' homes shall be subject;
 
 
 
 
(k) the type of the hard labour which is to form the punishment which may be awarded under sub-section (3) of section 15;
 
 
 
 
(l) the manner in which a vagrant may be sent from one vagrants' home to another under section 16;
 
 
 
 
(m) the manner in which the Manager of a vagrants' home is to certify under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 18 that satisfactory employment has been obtained for a vagrant;
 
 
 
 
(n) the amount of the bond referred to in clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 18;
 
 
 
 
(o) the officer referred to in sub-section (1) of section 24.

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