Prisoners (Attendance in Courts) Act, 1955

Act ID:	195532
Act Number:	32
Enactment Date:	1955-09-20
Act Year:	1955
Short Title:	The Prisoners (Attendance in Courts) Act, 1955
Long Title:	An Act to provide for the attendance in courts of persons confined in prisons for obtaining their evidence or for answering a criminal charge.
Ministry:	Ministry of Govt of Maharashtra
Department:	Home Department
Enforcement Date:	01-01-1956
Type:	CENTRAL ACT (Ministry of Home Affairs, Department of Home)
Location:	Maharashtra
Notification:	1st January, 1956, vide notification No. S.R.O. 3447, dated 8th November, 1955, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3.
Ref Act ID:	195532


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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.
Section 7. Commissions for examination of prisoners.
Section 8. Certain provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Code of Civil Procedure to apply.
Section 9. Power to make rules.
Section 10. Repeal.


Schedule 1. THE FIRST SCHEDULE. Order Appendix Forms
Schedule 2. THE SECOND SCHEDULE Order Appendix Forms