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Penalty for entering without permission area from which a person is directed to remove himself or overstaying when permitted to return temporarily or for failure to report place or residence or departure or arrival.— Without prejudice to the power to arrest and remove a person in the circumstances and in the manner provided in section 9, any person who— (a) in contravention of a direction issued to him under section 3 or section 4 enters or returns without permission to the area, or part thereof or to any specified area or areas as the case may be, from which he was directed to remove himself; or (b) enters or returns to any such area or part thereof or to any specified area or areas as the case may be, with permission granted under sub-section (1) of section 10 but fails, contrary to the provisions thereof, to remove himself outside such area or part thereof or outside such specified area or areas, as the case may be, at the expiry of temporary period for which he was permitted to enter or return or on the earlier revocation of such permission, or having removed himself at the expiry of such temporary period or on revocation of the permission, enters or returns thereafter, without fresh permission; or (c) fails, without sufficient cause, to make a report about his place of residence or about his date of departure or arrival as required under sub-section (2) of section 4 shall, -6- on conviction be punished with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to two years, and shall also be liable to fine.