The Criminal Tribes Act 1871, 27 of 1871, (Rep., Act 3 of 1911 )

Section 4. The Local Government shall cause the following registers to be made and kept up by such officer as, from time to time, it appoints in this behalf:

Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08

PART II. EUNUCHS. 24. The Local Government shall cause the following registers to be made and kept up by such officer as, from time to time, it appoints in this behalf:— - (a) a register of the names and residences of all eunuchs residing in any town or place to which the Local Government specially extends this Part of this Act, who are reasonably suspected of kidnapping or castrating children, or of committing offences under section three hundred and seventy-seven of the Indian Penal Code, or of abetting the commission of any of the said offences; and - (b) a register of the property of such of the said eunuchs as, under the provisions hereinafter contained, are required to furnish information as to their property. The term 'eunuch' shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to include all persons of the male sex who admit themselves, or on medical inspection clearly appear, to be impotent. 4. If such tribe, gang or class has no fixed place of residence, the report shall state whether such tribe, gang or class follows any lawful occupation, and whether such occupation is, in the opinion of the Local Government, the real occupation of such tribe, gang or class, or a pretence for the purpose of facilitating the commission of crimes, and shall set forth the grounds on which such opinion is based; and the report shall also specify the place of residence in which such wandering tribe, gang or class is to be settled under the provisions hereinafter contained, and the arrangements which are proposed to be made for enabling it to earn its living therein. 4. the limits within which persons whose names are on the register shall reside;

Source: India Code