Section 43

Power to arrest for offence under section.

The Prisons Act, 1894

  • Act 9 of 1894
  • Ministry of Home Affairs
  • Department of States
About this Act

An Act to extend the Indian Easements Act, 1882, to certain areas in which that Act is not in force.

All sections
    When any person, in the presence of any officer of a prison, commits any offence specified in the last foregoing section, and refuses on demand of such officer to state his name and residence, or gives a name or residence which such officer knows, or has reason to believe, to be false, such officer may arrest him, and shall without unnecessary delay make him over to a Police-officer, and thereupon such Police-officer shall proceed as if the offence had been committed in his presence.
Scroll to Top