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(5) Except so far as is necessary for the purposes of any proceedings under this section, no
information obtained in the course of any investigation made under sub-section (2) shall be divulged by
any gazetted officer of the Government, without the consent of the Central Government.
(6) In this section, “security” includes a document whereby any person acknowledges that he is under
a legal liability to pay money, or whereunder any person obtains a legal right to the payment of money.
8. Power to notify places used for the purpose of an unlawful association.—(1) Where an
association has been declared unlawful by a notification issued under section 3 which has become
effective under sub-section (3) of that section, the Central Government may, by notification in the Official
Gazette, notify any place which in its opinion is used for the purpose of such unlawful association.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this sub-section, “place” includes a house or building, or part
thereof, or a tent or vessel.
(2) On the issue of a notification under sub-section (1), the District Magistrate within the local limits
of whose jurisdiction such notified place is situate or any officer authorised by him in writing in this
behalf shall make a list of all movable properties (other than wearing-apparel, cooking vessels, beds and
beddings, tools of artisans, implements of husbandry, cattle, grain and food-stuffs and such other articles
as he considers to be of a trivial nature) found in the notified place in the presence of two respectable
witnesses.
(3) If, in the opinion of the District Magistrate, any articles specified in the list are or may be used for
the purpose of the unlawful association, he may make an order prohibiting any person from using the
articles save in accordance with the written orders of the District Magistrate.
(4) The District Magistrate may thereupon make an order that no person who at the date of the
notification was not a resident in the notified place shall, without the permission of the District
Magistrate, enter, or be on or in, the notified place:
Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to any near relative of any person who was a
resident in the notified place at the date of the notification.
(5) Where in pursuance of sub-section (4), any person is granted permission to enter, or to be on or in,
the notified place, that person shall, while acting under such permission, comply with such orders for
regulating his conduct as may be given by the District Magistrate.
(6) Any police officer, not below the rank of a sub-inspector, or any other person authorised in this
behalf by the Central Government may search any person entering, or seeking to enter, or being on or in,
the notified place and may detain any such person for the purpose of searching him:
Provided that no female shall be searched in pursuance of this sub-section except by a female.
(7) If any person is in the notified place in contravention of an order made under sub-section (4), then,
without prejudice to any other proceedings which may be taken against him, he may be removed
therefrom by any officer or by any other person authorised in this behalf by the Central Government.
(8) Any person aggrieved by a notification issued in respect of a place under sub-section (1) or by an
order made under sub-section (3) or sub-section (4) may, within thirty days from the date of the
notification or order, as the case may be, make an application to the Court of the District Judge within the
local limits of whose jurisdiction such notified place is situate—
(a) for declaration that the place has not been used for the purpose of the unlawful association; or
(b) for setting aside the order made under sub-section (3) or sub-section (4),
and on receipt of the application the Court of the District Judge shall, after giving the parties an
opportunity of being heard, decide the question.
9. Procedure to be followed in the disposal of applications under this Act.—Subject to any rules
that may be made under this Act, the procedure to be followed by the Tribunal in holding any inquiry
under sub-section (3) of section 4 or by a Court of the District Judge in disposing of any application under
sub-section (4) of section 7 or sub-section (8) of section 8 shall, so far as may be, be the procedure laid