Clause 12

Section 50 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting immediately after subsection (2) thereof the following new subsections: —“(3) Any person who commits an offence under the regulations made under this section may be arrested without warrant by any police officer or public health auxiliary, or by any public officer authorised in writing in that behalf by the Commissioner, and taken before a Magistrate’s Court.(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act or any other written law, any police officer, public health auxiliary or public officer who having effected an arrest in accordance with the provisions of subsection (3) of this section is satisfied as to the identity, name and place of residence of the person arrested, may, in his discretion, serve upon the person a notice in such form as may be prescribed under section 147 of this Act requiring such person to attend at the Court described at the hour and on the date specified in the notice.(5) A duplicate copy of the notice referred to in subsection (4) of this section shall be prepared by the police officer, public health auxiliary or public officer, as the case may be, and produced by him to the Court, if so required by the Court.(6) On an accused person appearing before a Court in pursuance of such a notice, the Court shall take cognizance of the offence alleged and shall proceed as though he were produced before it in pursuance of subsection (3) of this section.(7) If a person upon whom such a notice has been served as aforesaid fails to appear before a Magistrate’s Court in accordance therewith, the Court shall thereupon issue a warrant for the arrest of that person.(8) Upon a person arrested in pursuance of a warrant of arrest issued under subsection (7) of this section being produced before it, a Magistrate’s Court shall proceed as though he were produced before it in pursuance of subsection (3) of this section and shall at the conclusion of the proceedings call upon him to show cause why he should not be punished for failing to attend in compliance with the notice served upon him and if cause is not shown may order him to pay such penalty not exceeding two thousand dollars as the Court thinks fit or may commit him to prison for a term not exceeding two months.”.