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 2: Definitions.
    In this Act,—
         (a) "confinement in a prison"—references to confinement in a prison, by whatever form of words, include references to confinement or detention in a prison under any law providing for preventive detention;
         (b) "prison" includes—
             (i) any place which has been declared by the State Government, by general or special order, to be a subsidiary jail; and
             (ii) any reformatory, Borstal institution or other institution of a like nature;
         1[(c) "State Government", in relation to a Union territory, means the Administrator thereof.]
Notes:
1. Subs. by Adaptation of Laws (No. 3) Order, 1956, for clause (c) (w.e.f. 1-11-56).
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