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ORDINANCE IX OF 1979 ORDINANCE IX OF 1979 BALUCHISTAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORDINANCE, 1979 CHAPTER XX‑ PANCHAYATS 192. Proceedings on failure of the accused to appear.‑(1) If *the accused fails to appear or cannot be found, the Panchayat shall report the fact to any Magistrate in the District. (2) The Magistrate shall issue a warrant for the arrest of the accused and shall direct by endorsement on the warrant that if such person executes a bond with sufficient sureties for his attendance before him in the manner provided by section 76 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, the accused shall be released from custody. (3) When the accused appears before the Magistrate he shall direct him to execute a bond with or without sureties to appear before the Panchayat, Chairman or any member on such date as he may direct and thereafter to continue to appear before the Panchayat as directed by such person or the Panchayat. (4) On his failure to execute such bond the Magistrate shall order that the accused be produced in custody before the person mentioned in subsection (3) of the Panchayat on a date not later than fifteen days of such order. (5) If the accused fails to appear before the Panchayat after executing a bond under subsection (3), the Panchayat shall report the fact to the Magistrate before whom the bond was executed and such Magistrate shall proceed with the provision of Chapter XLII of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908.