(1) When information is given to an officer incharge of a police-station of the commission within the limits of such station of a non-cognizable offence, he shall enter in a book to be kept as aforesaid the substance of such information and refer the informant to the Magistrate. ^{[1] [2]}

(2) Investigation into non-cognizable cases. No police-officer shall investigate a non-cognizable case without the order of a Magistrate of the first or second class having power to try such case ^[1].

(3) Any police-officer receiving such order may exercise the same powers in respect of the investigation (except the power to arrest without warrant) as an officer in charge of a police-station may exercise in a cognizable case.