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50. Every person taken into custody by a police officer with or without a warrant, except a person detained for the mere purpose of taking his name and residence, shall be forthwith delivered into the custody of the officer in charge of a police station or a police officer authorised in that behalf by the Commissioner.

51. (1) WeneverWhenever [sic] any person apprehended with or without a warrant is brought to the officer in charge of any police station or a police officer authorised in that behalf by the Commissioner, it shall be lawful for such officer to inquire into the case and unless the offence appears to such officer to be of a serious nature or unless such person appears to such officer to be a person who ought to be detained, to discharge the person upon his entering into a recognizance, with or without sureties, for a reasonable amount, to appear before a magistrate or to surrender for service of a warrant of arrest and detention or for discharge at the time and place named in the recognizance; but where such person is detained in custody he shall be brought before a magistrate as soon as practicable, unless within forty-eight hours of his apprehension a warrant for his arrest and detention under any law relating to deportation is applied for, in which case he may be detained for a period not exceeding seventy-two hours from the time of such apprehension. Every recognizance so taken shall be of equal obligation on the parties entering into the same and shall be liable to the same proceedings for the estreating thereof as if the same had been taken before a magistrate.

(2) The respective names residences and occupations of the person so apprehended and of his surety or sureties, if any, entering into such recognizance, together with the condition thereof and the sums respectively acknowledged, shall be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose which shall be laid before the magistrate before whom the person apprehended is to appear or in the case of a person bound by recognizance to surrender for service of a warrant of arrest and detention or for discharge, before any magistrate; and if such person time and place mentioned in the recognizance, the magistrate does not appear or has not appeared when called upon at the