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1[6A. Certificate, arms, etc., to be delivered up by person ceasing to be member.- (1) Every person who for any reason ceases to be a member of the Home Guards shall forthwith deliver up to the Commandant or to such person and at such place as the Commandant may direct, his certificate of appointment or of office and the arms, accoutrements, clothing and other necessaries which have been furnished to him as such member. (2) Any Magistrate, and for special reasons which shall be recorded in writing at any time, any police officer not below the rank of a Deputy Commissioner for Police in Greater Bombay and Assistant or Deputy Superintendent of police elsewhere, may issue a warrant to search for and seize, wherever they may be found any certificate, arms, accoutrements, clothing or other necessaries not so delivered up. Every warrant so issued shall be executed in accordance with the provisions of the 2Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (V of 1898), by a police officer or if the Magistrate or the police officer issuing the warrant so directs by any other person. (3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to apply to any article which under the orders of the Commandant General has become the property of the person to whom the same was furnished.
<span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><b><sup>1</sup>[6A. Certificate, arms, etc., to be delivered up by person ceasing to be member.-</b> (<i>1</i>) Every person who for any reason ceases to be a member of the Home Guards shall forthwith deliver up to the Commandant or to such person and at such place as the Commandant may direct, his certificate of appointment or of office and the arms, accoutrements, clothing and other necessaries which have been furnished to him as such member.<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(<i>2</i>) Any Magistrate, and for special reasons which shall be recorded in writing at any time, any police officer not below the rank of a Deputy Commissioner for Police in Greater Bombay and Assistant or Deputy Superintendent of police elsewhere, may issue a warrant to search for and seize, wherever they may be found any certificate, arms, accoutrements, clothing or other necessaries not so delivered up. Every warrant so issued shall be executed in accordance with the provisions of the <sup>2</sup>Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (V of 1898), by a police officer or if the Magistrate or the police officer issuing the warrant so directs by any other person.<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(<i>3</i>) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to apply to any article which under the orders of the Commandant General has become the property of the person to whom the same was furnished.<br>