The Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959

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    "title": "The Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959",
    "short_title": "The Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959",
    "act_number": "Bombay Act No. 10 of 1960",
    "act_year": 1959,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
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    "description": "The Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent, commencement and repeal of corresponding laws and provisions.",
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            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(i) \"begging\" means-\n(a) soliciting or receiving alms in a public place, whether or not under any pretence such as singing, dancing, fortune-telling, performing or offering any article for sale;\n(b) entering on any private premises for the purpose of soliciting or receiving alms;\n(c) exposing or exhibiting, with the object of obtaining or extorting alms, any sore, wound, injury, deformity or disease whether of a human being or animal;\n(d) having no visible means of subsistence and, wandering about or remaining in any public place in such condition or manner, as makes it likely that the person doing so exists by soliciting or receiving alms;\n(e) allowing oneself to be used as an exhibit for the purpose of soliciting or receiving alms;\n(ii) \"Certified Institution\" means any institution which the State Government provides and maintains for the detention, training and employment of beggars and their dependants, and includes an institution certified to be such under sub-section (1) of section 13;\n(iii) \"Chief Inspector\" means the person appointed to be the Chief Inspector of Certified Institutions under sub-section (1) of section 17, and includes an Additional Chief Inspector appointed under that section;\n(iv) \"child\" has the same meaning as in the Bombay Children Act, 1948 (Bombay LXXI of 1948).\n(v) \"Court\" means the Court of a Judicial Magistrate of any class, or any other Court exercising criminal jurisdiction, in the area in which this Act is in force;\n(vi) \"Juvenile Court\" has the same meaning as in the Bombay Children Act, 1948 (Bombay LXXI of 1948).\n(vii) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(viii) \"Probation Officer\" means an officer appointed to be a Probation Officer under sub-section (1) of section 17;\n(ix) \"public place\" includes a railway compartment;\n(x) \"Receiving Centre\" means an institution for the reception and temporary detention of beggars provided by the State Government, or certified to be such under sub-section (1) of section 12;\n(xi) \"Superintendent\" means a Superintendent of a Receiving Centre or a Certified Institution, as the case may be.\nChapter II\nProcedure for Dealing with Beggars and Beggar Offenders",
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            "title": "3. Power of Courts.",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Power to require person found begging to appear before Court.",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Summary inquiry in respect of persons found begging and their detention.",
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            "content": "(a) the age and character of the beggar,\n(b) the circumstances and conditions in which the beggar was living,\n(c) reports made by the Probation Officer, and\n(d) such other matters as may, in the opinion of the court, require to be taken into consideration in the interest of the beggar.",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Penalty for begging after detention as beggar.",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Offences to be tried summarily.",
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            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Contribution of parents.",
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            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Court may order detention of persons wholly dependant on beggar.",
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            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Power of State Government to order further detention of incurably helpless beggars.",
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            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Penalty for employing or causing persons to beg or using them for purposes of begging.",
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            "content": "Chapter III\nReceiving Centres and Certified Institutions",
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            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Provision of Receiving Centres.",
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            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Provision of Certified Institutions.",
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            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Visiting Committees.",
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            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Advisory Committees.",
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            "content": "(a) tender advice as regards management, to any Certified Institution through the Chief Inspector or such other officer as the State Government may specify;\n(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;\n(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 as a Certified Institution within the local area;\n(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.",
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            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Payment of contribution by local authorities and recovery thereof.",
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            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Appointment of Chief Inspector, Additional Chief Inspector, Inspectors, Assistant Inspectors and Probation Officers.",
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            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Search in receiving Centres and Certified Institutions.",
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            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Management and discipline.",
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            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Disciplinary imprisonment.",
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        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Transfer from one Receiving Centre or Certified Institution to another.",
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            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Release on licence.",
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            "content": "(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\n(b) the Chief Inspector may at any time release such person conditionally and issue him in a licence therefor.",
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            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Revocation of licence.",
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        },
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            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Unconditional release.",
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            "content": "Chapter IV\nMiscellaneous",
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        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Procedure on order of detention or sentence of imprisonment.",
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            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Medical examination and detention of leprosy patients and lunatics.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Arrest of person escaping from Receiving Centre or Certified Institution.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Transfers between Certified Institution and Institution of like nature in different parts of India.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Power to take finger prints.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Seizure and disposal of animals exposed or exhibited for obtaining or extorting alms.",
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        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Offences to be cognizable and non-bailable.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Persons to be deemed public servants.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Bonds taken under Act V of 1898.",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Appeals.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Rules.",
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            "content": "(a) the manner of authorizing a purpose under clause (i) of sub-section (1) of section 2;\n(b) the manner of keeping persons arrested under sub-section (3) of section 4 or section 9;\n(c) the manner of making summary inquiry under sub-section (1) of section 5;\n(d) the manner in which contribution for the maintenance of a person detained in a Certified Institution may be ordered to be paid under subsection (1) of section 8;\n(e) the manner of appointing a visiting committee under section 14;\n(f) the conduct of business by Advisory Committees;\n(g) the date before which payment shall be made under sub-section (1) of section 16;\n(h) the manner in which the effects and the money and valuables referred to in section 18 shall be disposed of;\n(i) the management and discipline of persons detained in a Receiving Centre or Certified Institution including the imposition of manual or other work and the awarding of punishment for breach of any rule made under this clause;\n(j) the conditions subject to which the Chief Inspector may direct transfers under section 21;\n(k) the conditions subject to which a person may be released on licence under section 22;\n(l) the conditions subject to which a licence may be revoked under section 28;\n(m) the manner of medical examination of beggars;\n(n) any other matter which is required to be or may be prescribed.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Removal of difficulties.",
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            "content": "Schedule\n[ See Section 1(4)]\n[ See Section 1(4)]\nNo. and year\nNo. and year\nShort title.\nShort title.\nExtent of repeal\nExtent of repeal\n1\n1\n2\n2\n3\n3\nBombay XXIII of 1945\nBombay Beggars Act, 1945\nThe whole.\nBombay XXII of 1951\nBombay Police Act, 1951",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 35
        },
        {
            "number": "114",
            "title": "Section 114.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Hyd. Act XX of 1950 F...\nPrevention of Beggary Act, 1950 Fasli.\nThe whole.\nC.P. and Berar Act II of 1950.\nCity of Nagpur Corporation Act, 1948.\nChapter XXXI.\nC.P. and Berar Act II of 1922.\nCentral Provinces and Berar Municipalities Act,\n\t\t\t\t1922.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 36
        },
        {
            "number": "206",
            "title": "Section 206.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "C.P. and Berar Act XXXVIII of 1948.\nCentral Provinces and Berar Local Government\n\t\t\t\tAct, 1948.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 37
        },
        {
            "number": "129",
            "title": "Section 129.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Sau. Act XVIII of 1954\nSaurashtra Police Act, 1954",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "104",
            "title": "Section 104.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Bombay IV of 1890\nBombay District Police Act, 1890 as applied to\n\t\t\t\tthe Kutch Area of the State of Bombay by the Kutch (Application\n\t\t\t\tof Laws) Order, 1949.\nClause (2) of section 61.",
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        "Act ID": "guj146",
        "Act Number": "Bombay Act No. 10 of 1960",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1959",
        "Short Title": "The Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}