Prisoners Act, 1900
Bare Act · 1900
An Act to consolidate the law relating to Prisoners confined by order of a Court.
In the syllabus of: Goa APO
- Act number
- 3 of 1900
- Enacted
- 2 February 1900
- Contents
- 53 sections · 5 chapters
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Contents
Part I — Preliminary
Part II — General
- Section 3 – Officers in charge of prisons to detain persons duly committed to their custody
- Section 4 – Officers in charge of prisons to return writs, etc., after execution or discharge
Part III — Prisoners In The Presidency-Towns
- Section 5 – Warrants, etc., to be directed to Police-officers
- Section 6 – Power for State Governments to appoint Superintendents of Presidency prisons (preview)
- Section 7 – Delivery of persons sentenced to imprisonment or death by High Court (preview)
- Section 8 – Delivery of persons sentenced to transportation by High Court (preview)
- Section 9 – Delivery of persons committed by High Court in execution of a decree or for contempt (preview)
- Section 10 – Delivery of persons sentenced by Presidency Magistrates (preview)
- Section 11 – Delivery of persons committed for trial by High Court (preview)
- Section 12 – Custody pending hearing by High Court under section 350 of the Code of Civil Procedure of application for insolvency (preview)
- Section 13 – Delivery of persons arrested in pursuance of warrant of High Court or Civil Court in Presidency- town (preview)
- Section 14 – References in this Part to prisons, etc., to be construed as referring also to Reformatory Schools (preview)
- Section 15 – Power for officers in charge of prisons to give effect to sentences of certain Courts (preview)
- Section 16 – Warrant of officer of such Court to be sufficient authority (preview)
- Section 17 – Procedure where officer in charge of prison doubts the legality of warrant sent to him for execution under this Part (preview)
- Section 18 – Execution in the States of certain capital sentences not ordinarily executable there (preview)
- Section 19 – [Omitted.] (preview)
- Section 20 – [Omitted.] (preview)
- Section 21 – [Omitted.] (preview)
- Section 22 – [Omitted.] (preview)
- Section 23 – [Omitted.] (preview)
- Section 24 – [Omitted.] (preview)
- Section 25 – [Omitted.] (preview)
- Section 26 – [Omitted.] (preview)
- Section 27 – [Omitted.] (preview)
Part VI — Removal Of Prisoners
- Section 28 – References in this Part to prisons, etc., to be construed as referring also to Reformatory Schools (preview)
- Section 29 – Removal of prisoners (preview)
- Section 30 – Lunatic prisoners how to be dealt with (preview)
- Section 31 – [Repealed.] (preview)
- Section 32 – Appointment of places for confinement of persons under sentence of transportation and removal thereto (preview)
Part VIII — Discharge Of Prisoners
- Section 33 – Release, on recognizance, by order of High Court, of prisoner recommended for pardon (preview)
- Section 34 – Repealed (preview)
- Section 35 – Repealed (preview)
- Section 36 – Repealed (preview)
- Section 37 – Repealed (preview)
- Section 38 – Repealed (preview)
- Section 39 – Repealed (preview)
- Section 40 – Repealed (preview)
- Section 41 – Repealed (preview)
- Section 42 – Repealed (preview)
- Section 43 – Repealed (preview)
- Section 44 – Repealed (preview)
- Section 45 – Repealed (preview)
- Section 46 – Repealed (preview)
- Section 47 – Repealed (preview)
- Section 48 – Repealed (preview)
- Section 49 – Repealed (preview)
- Section 50 – Repealed (preview)
- Section 51 – Repealed (preview)
- Section 52 – Repealed (preview)
- Section 53 – Repealed (preview)