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Provided that any expense incurred outside the limits of
a municipality or a cantonment but for the benefit of such
municipality or cantonment shall be met from such municipal
or cantonment fund.
32. When in the exercise of the powers conferred by or
under these regulations any damage or loss is caused, no
person shall be entitled as a matter of right to claim any
compensation, but the Collector of the district or a plague
officer may award compensation at the cost of local, munici-
pal or Provincial funds as the case may be, and shall do so
when the loss would fall upon people in very poor circum-
stances, or may, in such cases, provide other necessary articles
in the place of those destroyed or damaged and debit the
charge to the proper funds.
33. Every person segregated or detained under any of
these regulations shall obey the directions issued to him by
the officer in charge of the place of segregation or detention
and shall not leave such place except with the written per-
mission of the said officer, who may take such steps as may
be necessary to enforce this prohibition.
34. If a Police officer has reason to believe that a person
is evading these regulations by giving a false name or a wrong
address, he may detain him until satisfied as to his true
name and address and may act in accordance with the provi-
sions of section 57 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
35. Any person disobeying or contravening or refusing
to submit himself to any of these regulations or obstructing
any measure taken under the authority of these regulations,
shall be deemed to have committed an offence punishable
under section 188 of the Indian Penal Code, and shall be
liable, on conviction, to imprisonment of either description
for a term which may extend to six months or fine which may
extend to one thousand rupees or both.
Notes.-(1) The plague regulations being orders formally made and issued by
Government under the Epidemic Diseases Act, no sanction is required as a condition
precedent to prosecution for disobeying them Judgment of the High Court in Criminal
Appeal No. 561 of 1899).
(2) By Command Order, No. 687, dated 18th November 1898, all ranks in
the Madras Command have been directed to obey the plague regulations, and any
infringement of them is punishable as a military offence. Military pensioners have
been warned (Superintendent's circular No. II, dated 14th December 1898), that any
disobedience or wilful neglect of the regulations or obstruction offered to any official
on plague duty will be treated as a breach of the good conduct required by Govern-
ment as a condition of the continuation of their pensions, and that any pensioner
being guilty thereof will be liable to have his pension stopped forthwith and the
same reduced or permanently withdrawn.