the warrant.
Public to give information of certain offences.
44. (1) Every person aware of the commission of, or of the intention of any other person to commit, an offence
punishable under any of the following sections of the Penal Code (namely), 121, 121A, 122, 123, 124, 124A,
125,126,130,143,144,145,147,148,302,303,304,382,392,393,394,395,396,397,399,402,435,436,449,
450, 456, 457, 458, 459 and 460, shall, in the absence of reasonable excuse, the burden of proving which shall
lie upon the person so aware, forthwith give information to the nearest Magistrate or police-officer of such
commission or intention.
(2) For the purposes of this section the term "offence" includes an act committed at any place out of the
Union of Myanmar which would constitute an offence if committed in the Union of Myanmar.
Village headmen, landholders and others bound to report certain matters.
45. (1) Every village-headman, village police-officer, owner or occupier of land, and the agent of any such owner
or occupier in charge of the management of that land, and every officer employed in the collection of revenue
or rent of land on the part of Government, shall, forthwith communicate to the nearest Magistrate or to the
officer in charge of the nearest police-station, whichever is the nearer, any information which he may possess
respecting-
(a) the permanent or temporary residence of any notorious receiver or vendor of stolen property in any
village of which he is headman or police-officer, or in which he owns or occupies land, or is agent, or
collects revenue or rent;
(b) the resort to any place within, or the passage through, such village of any person whom he knows, or
reasonably suspects to be, a thug, robber, escaped convict or proclaimed offender;
(c) the commission of, or intention to commit, in or near such village any non-bailable offence or any
offence punishable under section 143, 144, 145, 147, or 148 of the Penal Code;
(d) the occurrence in or near such village of any sudden or unnatural death or of any death under
suspicious circumstances, or the discovery in or near such village of any corpse or part of a corpse in
circumstances which lead to a reasonable suspicion that such a death has occurred, or the
disappearance from such village of any person in circumstances which lead to a reasonable suspicion
that a non-bailable offence has been committed in respect of such person;
(e) the commission of, or intention to commit, at any place out of the Union of Myanmar near such village
any act which, if committed in the Union of Myanmar, would be an offence punishable under any of the
following sections of the Penal Code namely, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 302, 304, 382, 392,
393,394,395,396,397,399,402,435,436,449,450,457,458,459,460,489A,489B,489C, and489D;
(f) any matter likely to affect the maintenance of order or the prevention of crime or the safety of person
or property respecting which the District Magistrate, by general or special order made with the previous
sanction of the President of the Union, has directed him to communicate information.