Prisoners (Attendance in Courts) Act, 1955
Bare Act · 1955
An Act to provide for the attendance in courts of persons confined in prisons for obtaining their evidence or for answering a criminal charge.
In the syllabus of: Goa APO
- Act number
- 32 of 1955
- Enacted
- 20 September 1955
- Contents
- 10 sections
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Contents
- Section 1 – Short title, extent and commencement
- Section 2 – Definitions
- Section 3 – Power of courts to require appearance of prisoners to give evidence or answer a charge
- Section 4 – Power of State Government to exempt certain persons from operation of section 3
- Section 5 – Prisoners to be brought up
- Section 6 – Officer in charge of prison when to abstain from carrying out order (preview)
- Section 7 – Commissions for examination of prisoners (preview)
- Section 8 – Certain provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Code of Civil Procedure to apply (preview)
- Section 9 – Power to make rules (preview)
- Section 10 – Repeal (preview)