Power to issue order in urgent cases of nuisance or apprehended danger
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Summary
An empowered Executive Magistrate may issue a written order when immediate prevention or speedy remedy of a nuisance or apprehended danger is needed. The order can require a person to stop an act or take steps about property to prevent obstruction, injury, danger to life or health, public disturbance, riot or affray, and may be passed ex parte in emergencies. Orders normally last up to two months, though the State may extend them by notification for up to six more months; the Magistrate or the State Government can alter or rescind the order, giving the affected person a chance to be heard.
Example
Priya runs a tea stall that blocks a narrow lane outside a hospital, creating obstruction and risk to patients. The Executive Magistrate issues a written order directing her to remove the stall immediately to prevent danger; because it is urgent the order is passed ex parte and will run up to two months unless the State extends it. Priya can apply to the Magistrate to alter or rescind the order and will be given a chance to be heard.
Bare Act
Enacted text(1) In cases where, in the opinion of a District Magistrate, a Sub-divisional Magistrate or any other Executive Magistrate specially empowered by the State Government in this behalf, there is sufficient ground for proceeding under this section and immediate prevention or speedy remedy is desirable, such Magistrate may, by a written order stating the material facts of the case and served in the manner provided by section 134, direct any person to abstain from a certain act or to take certain order with respect to certain property in his possession or under his management, if such Magistrate considers that such direction is likely to prevent, or tends to prevent, obstruction, annoyance or injury to any person lawfully employed, or danger to human life, health or safely, or a disturbance of the public tranquility, or a riot, or an affray.
(2) An order under this section may, in cases of emergency or in cases where the circumstances do not admit of the serving in due lime of a notice upon the person against whom the order is directed, be passed Ex-parte.
(3) An order under this section may be directed to a particular individual, or to persons residing in a particular place or area, or to the public generally when frequenting or visiting a particular place or area.
(4) No order under this section shall remain in force for more than two months from the making thereof:
Provided that, if the State Government considers it necessary so to do for preventing danger to human life, health or safety or for preventing a riot or any affray, it may, by notification, direct that an order made by a Magistrate under this section shall remain in force for such further period not exceeding six months from the date on which the order made by the Magistrate would have, but for such order, expired, as it may specify in the said notification.
(5) Any Magistrate may, either on his own motion or on the application of any person aggrieved, rescind or alter any order made under this section, by himself or any Magistrate subordinate to him or by his predecessor-in-office.
(6) The State Government may, either on its own motion or on the application of any person aggrieved, rescind or alter any order made by it under the proviso to Sub-Section (4).
(7) Where an application under Sub-Section (5), or Sub-Section (6) is received, the Magistrate, or the State Government, as the case may be, shall afford to the applicant an early opportunity of appearing before him or it, either in person or by pleader and showing cause against the order, and if the Magistrate or the State Government, as the case may be, rejects the application wholly or in part, he or it shall record in writing the reasons for so doing.
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