The Criminal Tribes Act, 1911, 3 of 1911 (Rep., Act 6 of 1924)

Section 20. (1) The Local Government may make rules to carry out the purposes and objects of this Act

Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08

(2) In 5.1 Criminal Tribes. [ACT III (Rules.)] 20. (1) The Local Government may make rules to carry out the purposes and objects of this Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for and regulate— (a) the form and contents of the register prescribed in section 4; (b) the mode in which the notice prescribed in section 5 shall be published and the means by which the persons whom it concerns, and the village-headmen, village-watchmen and landowners or occupiers of the village in which such persons reside, or the agents of such landowners or occupiers, shall be informed of its publication; (c) the addition of names to the register and the erasure of names therein, and the mode in which the notice prescribed in section 7 shall be given; (d) the mode in which persons mentioned in section 10 shall report themselves, or notify their residence or any change or intended change of residence or any absence or intended absence; (e) the nature of the restrictions to be observed by persons whose movements have been restricted by notification under section 12 or section 13; (f) the conditions as to holding passes under which persons may be permitted to leave the place in which they are settled or confined or the area to which their movements are restricted; (g) the conditions to be inserted in any such pass in regard to— (i) the places where the holder of the pass may go or reside; (ii) the persons before whom, from time to time, he shall be bound to present himself; and (iii) the 1911.] Criminal Tribes. 55 (Penalties and Procedure.) (iii) the time during which he may absent himself; (h) the place and time at which and the persons before whom members of a criminal tribe shall attend in accordance with the provisions of section 14; (i) the inspection of the residences and villages of any criminal tribe; (j) the terms upon which registered members of criminal tribes may be discharged from the operation of this Act; (k) the management, control and supervision of industrial, agricultural or reformatory settlements and schools; (l) the works on which, and the hours during which, persons placed in an industrial, agricultural or reformatory settlement shall be employed, the rate at which they shall be paid, and the disposal, for the benefit of such persons, of the surplus proceeds of their labour; and (m) the discipline to which persons endeavouring to escape from any industrial, agricultural or reformatory settlement or school, or otherwise offending against the rules for the time being in force, shall be subject, the periodical visitation of such settlement or school and the removal from it of such persons as it shall seem expedient to remove. Penalties and Procedure.

Source: India Code