section 59
Power to arrest person committing an offence and refusing to give name and address
The Orissa Water Supply and Sewerage Board Act, 1991Infrastructure199168 sections10 chapters
Chapter IX PENAL& AND PROC~DURB
Statutory text
- (1) Any officer or servant of the Board, or any police officer, may arrest any person who commits any offence against this Act or any rule or regulation or bye-law made thereunder, if the name and address of such person be unknown to such officer or servant and he, on demand, declines to give his name and address or gives a name and address which such officer or servant has reason to believe to be false.
- (2) Such person shall be detained by such officer or servant and shall, without unnecessary delay, be taken before the nearest Magistrate.
- (3) No person so arrested shall be detained in custody after his true name and address are ascertained or, without the order of a Magistrate, for a longer period than twenty-four hours from the time of his arrest exclusive of the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the Magistrate.
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