Section 8
Certain provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Code of Civil Procedure to apply.
The Prisoners (Attendance in Courts) Act, 1955
About this Act
An Act to provide for the attendance in courts of persons confined in prisons for obtaining their evidence or for answering a criminal charge.
Save as otherwise provided in this Act and any rules made thereunder, the provisions of the
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898), as the
case may be, shall, so far as may be, apply in relation to the examination on commission or otherwise of
any person confined in a prison as they apply in relation to the examination on commission of any other
person.