Duty to surrender

(1) Where a warrant for the arrest of any person has been issued for an offence punishable with death or with imprisonment for three years or more and the police are unable to apprehend him after making reasonable efforts, it shall be lawful for the police to give a notice to such person in two consecutive issues of the Gazette and of at least two newspapers circulating in the place where the accused person was last known to reside, requiring such person to surrender himself to the authority specified in the notice within a period of seven days or such longer period as may be specified in the (2) A copy of the notice issued under subsection (1) of this section, shall also be left at the last known place of abode of the accused person. (3) If the person named in the warrant or in the notice fails to surrender in compliance with the notice issued under subsection (1) of this section, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or to both such fine and imprisonment. (4) It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence under this section to prove that the circumstances were such that he did not know and would not have known of the warrant or the notice. laws. First, Second and Third Schedule.