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Requisitzon to owner to furmsh address of absent drzver. -( 1) When a complaint is made before a Magistrate against the driver of a hackney carriage under this Act, the Magistrate may if the driver fails to appear, summon the owner to appear and to furnish the correct address of the driver. (2) If the owner after being duly summoned fails, without reasonable excuse, to appear or furmsh the correct address of the driver accordmg to the summons, he shall be hable to a fine not exceedmg fifty rupees. (3) If the owner fails without reasonable excuse to appear or furni h the correct address of the driver on a subsequent summons requmng him to do so, the Magistrate may dispose of the complaint 111 the absence of the owner and dnver or either of them.