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810 THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, OCTOBER 11, 2000 (2) Subject to such restrictions as the State Government may prescribe, a Collector or with the previous permission of a Collector but not otherwise, any other officer specially empowered under section 42, may without reference to Magistrate and for reasons to be recorded by him in writing, stop further proceedings against any person concerned or supposed to be concerned in any offence which he has investigated. (3) for the purposes of the provisions of section 166 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 which an officer specially empowered under sub-section (2) of section 42 is appointed shall be deemed to be a Police Station, and such officer the officer-in-charge of such station. (4) As soon as an investigation under section 42 has been completed, if it appears that there is sufficient evidence to justify the forwarding of the accused to a Magistrate, the Investigating Officer, when does not proceed under sub-section (2) or under section 76 shall submit a report, which for the purposes of section 190 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, shall be deemed to be a Police report, in such form as the State Government may prescribe to a Magistrate having jurisdiction to inquire into or try the case and empowered to take cognizance of offences on police report. C entral Act II of 1 9 7 4 . Production of persons arrested or article seized.