Certificate, arms, etc., to be delivered up

(1) Every person who for any reason ceases to be a member of the Home Guards shall forthwith deliver to the Area Commandant or to such person and at such place as the Area Commandant may direct, his certificate of appointment, arms, accoutrements, clothing and other articles supplied to him as a member of the Home Guards. (2) The Area Commandant or such other person receiving under sub-section (1) any certificate of appointment, arms, accoutrements, clothing and other articles, shall give a receipt for the same to the person delivering such certificate, arms, accoutrements, clothing and other articles. (3) Any magistrate, and for special reasons which shall be recorded in writing at the time, any police officer not below the rank of an Assistant Superintendent of Police, may issue a warrant to search for and seize, wherever they may be found, any certificate, arms, accoutrements, clothing or other articles not so delivered up. Every warrant so issued shall be executed in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, by a police officer or if the magistrate or the police officer issuing the warrant so directs, by any other person. (4) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to apply to any article which under the orders of the Commandant has become the property of the person to whom the same was furnished.