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32/1955 - The Prisoners (Attendance in Courts) Act, 1955 ▶

Act Number: 32

Act Name: The Prisoners (Attendance in Courts) Act, 1955

Year: 1955

Enactment Date: 1955-09-20

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 Home Affairs

Department: Department of Home

Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement.

    (1) This Act may be called the Prisoners (Attendance in Courts) Act, 1955.
     (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir*.
     (3) It shall come into force on such date¹ as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

Notes:

¹. 1st January, 1956, vide notification No. S.R.O. 3447, dated 8th November, 1955, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3.
^*. Vide notification No. S.O. 3912(E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh.

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