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 5: Prisoners to be brought up.
    Upon delivery of any order made under section 3 to the officer in charge of the prison in which the person named therein is confined, that officer shall cause him to be taken to the court in which his attendance is required, so as to be present in the court at the time of such order mentioned, and shall cause him to be detained in custody in or near the court until he has been examined or until the judge or presiding officer of the court authorises him to be taken back to the prison in which he was confined.
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