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Bare Act

The Goa, Daman and Diu Habitual Offenders Act, 1976

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This law provides a system for monitoring, registering, and rehabilitating habitual criminal offenders within the territory. It applies to adults who have been repeatedly convicted of specific serious offences, such as theft, robbery, extortion, or counterfeiting, over a five-year period. Authorities can track these registered individuals by collecting biometric data, requiring them to report changes of residence, and restricting their movement to specific areas. Additionally, the legislation allows the government to place repeat offenders into corrective settlements for vocational training and reform. By balancing public safety controls with rehabilitative measures, it aims to prevent reoffending and reintegrate individuals into society.

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  1. 1. Short title, extent and commencement
  2. 2. Definitions
  3. 3. Power of Government to direct registration of habitual offenders
  4. 4. Procedure for preparing a register of habitual offenders
  5. 5. Charge of register and alterations therein
  6. 6. Power to take finger and palm impressions, footprints and photographs at any time
  7. 7. Registered offenders to notify change of residence and to report themselves
  8. 8. Procedure by District Magistrate on change of residence of habitual offender to other district
  9. 9. Duration of registration and re-registration of habitual offenders
  10. 10. Right to make representations against registration or re-registration, etc.
  11. 11. Power to restrict movements of registered offenders
  12. 12. Power to cancel or alter restrictions of movements
  13. 13. Powers under sections 11 and 12 also exercisable by certain Magistrates
  14. 14. Establishment of corrective settlements
  15. 15. Power to direct habitual offenders to receive corrective training
  16. 16. Power to transfer or discharge from corrective settlement
  17. 17. Penalty for failure to comply with certain provisions of the Act
  18. 18. Arrest of persons found outside restriction area of corrective settlement
  19. 19. Enhanced punishment for certain previously convicted persons
  20. 20. Punishment for certain registered offenders found under suspicious circumstances
  21. 21. Penalty for failure to arrest a habitual offender
  22. 22. Bar of jurisdiction
  23. 23. Bar of legal proceedings
  24. 24. Power to delegate
  25. 25. Power to make rules
  26. 26. Savings
  27. 27. Repeal
  28. THE SCHEDULE. [See section 2 (i)]

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