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[State Government] may, by notification and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed in such notification, empower all or any of the officers or classes of officers or persons mentioned in Section 40 throughout the [State of Kerala] or in any local area, to admit a person arrested under that section to bail to appear, when summoned or otherwise directed before a Police or Prohibition Officer or Magistrate having jurisdiction to enquire into the offence for which such person has been arrested, and may cancel or vary such notification. Substituted by Act 25 of 1960. Adapted by K.A.L. Order, 1956.