Section 3. Locality of service of Reserves

3. Locality of service of Reserves .—[5] * A person belonging to the[6] [Indian Reserve Forces] shall be liable to serve beyond the limits of[7] [India] as well as within those limits. 8* * * * * 3. The Act came into force on the 26[th] may, 1888, see Gazette of India of same date, Pt. I, p. 239 4. Subs. by Act 12 of 1931, s. 2, for section 2. 5. The brackets and figure "(1)" omitted, by s. 3, ibid . 6. Subs. by s. 3, ibid ., for "Active Reserve". 7. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for "the territories comprised within Part A States and Part C Sates". 8. Sub-section (2) omitted by Act 12 of 1931, s. 3. 9. S. 4 renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof by Act 20 of 1983, s. 2 and Schedule (w.e.f. 15-3-1984). 10. Ins. by s. 2 and Schedule, ibid (w.e.f. 15-3-1984). 11. The words and figure "the provision of section 3 with respect to persons belonging to the Garrison Reserve and to" omitted by Act 12 of 1931, s. 4. 12. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Her Majesty's Indian Forces" (b) fails without reasonable excuse to comply with any such rule or order, or (c) fraudulently obtains any pay or other sum contrary to any such rule or order, he shall be liable— (i) on conviction by a court-martial, to such punishment other than death, transportation or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year as such Court is by the[1] [Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950)] empowered to award, or (ii) on conviction by[2] [a Presidency Magistrate or] a Magistrate of the first class, to imprisonment for-a term which may extend, in the case of a first offence under this section, to six months, and, in the ease of any subsequent offence thereunder, to one year. (2) Where a person belonging to the Indian Reserve Forces is required by or in pursuance of any rule or order under this Act to attend at any place, a certificate purporting to be signed by an officer appointed by such a rule or order in this behalf, and stating that the person so required to attend failed to do so in accordance with such requirement, shall, without proof of the signature or appointment of such officer, he evidence of the matters stated therein. (3) Any person charged with an offence under this section may be taken into and kept in either military or civil custody, or partly into and in one description of custody and partly into and in the other, or be transferred from one description of custody to the other.