Chapter III RECEIVING CENTRES AND CERTIFIED INSTITUTIONS.

(1) The State Government may provide and maintain one or more Receiving Centres at such place or places as it thinks fit, and may certify any institution to be a Receiving Centre for the purposes of this Act. (2) Every such Receiving Centre shall be under the control of a Superintendent.

(1) The State Government may provide and maintain one or more Certified Institutions at such place or places as it thinks fit, and may certify any institution to be a Certified Institution for the purposes of this Act. Any such Certified Institution may include provision for the teaching of agricultural, industrial and other pursuits, and for the general education and medical care of the inmates. (2) Every such Certified Institution shall be under the charge of a Superintendent.

For every Receiving Centre and every Certified Institution, the State Government shall appoint a visiting committee in such manner as may be prescribed.

(1) The State Government may constitute for any area in which this Act has come into force in the manner provided in sub-section (3) of section 1, an Advisory Committee consisting of such persons, not exceeding twenty-one in number, as it may appoint: Provided that, where a local authority has agreed to render such financial assistance as the State Government may consider proper in each case, for the maintenance of Certified Institutions in which beggars from the area subject to the jurisdiction of the local authority arc detained, the State Government shall appoint such number of persons as it deems fit on the Advisory Committee for such area representing the local authority. (2) The Advisory Committee constituted under sub-section (1) in any local area, or any member thereof, may visit at all reasonable times and after due notice to the Superintendent, any Certified Institution in which beggars from that area are detained. (3) The Advisory Committee may also- (a) tender advice as regards management, to any Certified Institution through the Chief Inspector or such other officer as the State Government may specify; (b) collect subscriptions towards the recurring as well as non-recurring expenses of any or all Certified Institutions within the local area, or in which beggars from that area are detained, and disburse the collections in the prescribed manner; (c) advise the State Government, through the Chief Inspector, as regards the certification of, any Institution as a Certified Institution or the de-certification of any Certified Institution within the local area; (d) advise the State Government generally on the working of this Act in that area, and particularly on any point referred to it by the Chief Inspector or any other officer specified by the State Government.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, any local authority which has agreed to pay a certain sum of money for the maintenance of a Certified Institution shall make payment of that sum to the State Government before a date prescribed in that behalf. (2) If any sum is not paid by a local authority before the prescribed date, the State Government may make an order directing any person, who for the time being has custody of any moneys on behalf of the local authority as its officer, treasurer, banker or otherwise to pay the sum from such moneys as he may have in his hands or may from time to time receive, to the State Government, and such person shall be bound to obey such order. Every payment made pursuant to such order shall be sufficient discharge to such person from all liability to the local authority in respect of any amount paid by him out of the moneys of the local authority so held by him.

(1) For carrying out the purposes of this Act, the State Government may appoint a Chief Inspector of Certified Institutions, an Additional Chief Inspector of Certified Institutions, an Inspector and such number of Assistant Inspectors and Probation Officers as it thinks advisable to assist the Chief

The Superintendent of a Receiving Centre or a Certified Institution may order that any person received in the Receiving Centre or Certified Institution shall be searched, that he shall be cleansed, that his personal effects shall be inspected, and that any money or valuables found with or on the person shall be kept in the custody of such Superintendent, and that any effects other than money or valuables so found shall be disposed of in the prescribed manner. Where an order of detention is passed by the court against any such person, the Superintendent may order that any money or valuables found with or on the person shall be disposed of in the prescribed manner. Where the court passes an order other than an order of detention with regard to any such person, his money and valuables shall be returned to him, and if his clothing has been distroyed, he shall be provided with fresh clothing. The expenses of providing such clothing shall be paid out of moneys provided by the State Legislature : Provided that a female shall be searched only by a female, and with due regard to decency.

Persons remanded to, or detained in, Receiving Centres and Certified Institutions under this Act shall be subject to such rules of management and discipline, including the imposition of manual or other work and the awarding of punishment for breach of any such rules, as may, from time to time, be prescribed.

(1) Without prejudice to any disciplinary action that may be taken under the section immediately preceding, the Chief Inspector, the Inspector or Superintendent may report to the court the case of any person detained in a Certified Institution who habitually and wilfully disobeys or neglects to comply with any rule referred to in that section; and the court may thereupon, if satisfied that the person has wilfully disobeyed or neglected to comply with any such rule, convert the balance of the period of his detention in a Certified Institution or part thereof into a term of imprisonment. (2) The sentence of imprisonment ordered as aforesaid shall be executed in the same manner as a sentence passed under section 6.

(1) Subject to conditions prescribed, the Chief Inspector may direct any person detained in a Receiving Centre or Certified Institution to be transferred therefrom to another Receiving Centre or Certified Institution in the State : Provided that the total period of detention of such person shall in no case be increased by such transfer. (2) In directing such transfer the Chief Inspector shall have regard to the medical certificate and the directions, if any, made by the State Government or court under section 26.

(1) Subject to such conditions as are prescribed,- (a) the Chief Inspector or the Superintendent of the Certified Institution may at any time grant permission to a person detained in a Certified Institution to absent himself for short periods, and (b) the Chief Inspector may at any time release such person conditionally and issue him a licence therefor. (2) Any such licence shall be in force until the expiry of the term for which the person was ordered to be detained in a Certified Institution, unless sooner revoked. (3) The period during which such person is absent from a Certified Institution by permission or by licence as aforesaid shall, for the purpose of computing his term of detention in a Certified Institution, be deemed to be part of his detention.

(1) Subject to such conditions as are prescribed, the Chief Inspector may at any time revoke a licence issued under section 22, and thereupon the released person shall be detained in a Certified Institution until the expiry of the dat for which he had been ordered to be detained. (2) For the purpose of this section the Chief Inspector may, if necessary, cause the released person to be arrested and sent to the nearest Receiving Centre together with a copy of the order of detention, and thereupon the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 25 shall as far as may be apply.

At any time after the expiration of three months from the commencement of the release on licence of any person under section 22, the Chief Inspector may, if he is satisfied that there is a probability that such person will abstain from begging, recommend to the State Government his unconditional release. The State Government may on such recommendation release such person unconditionally, and thereupon the term for which such person had been ordered to be detained in a Certified Institution shall be deemed to have expired.