Indian Legislature

“ Every village-headman and village-watchman in a village, and every owner or occupier of land and the agent, of any such owner or occupier, shall forth with communicate to the officer in charge of the nearest-police-station any information which he may obtain of the arrival at such village or on such land, as the case may be of any persons who may: reasonably be suspected of being members of any criminal tribe. ”

“ Where, in pursuance of any such notification, any member of a criminal tribe is restricted in his movements to an area, or is settled in a place of residence, situated in a province other than that by the Local Government of which the notification under section 3 relating to the criminal tribe was issued, all the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder shall apply to him as if the notification under section 3 had been issued by the Local Government of such other province. ”

“ Power to declare any tribe, gang or class a criminal tribe. 3. If the Local Government has reason to believe that any tribe, gang or class of persons, or any part of a tribe, gang or class, is addicted to the systematic commission of nonbailable 'offences, it may, by notification in the local official Gazette, declare that such tribe, gang or class or, as the case may be, that such part of the tribe, gang or class is a criminal tribe for the purposes of this Act. ”