Bare Acts › Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC)

Section 56

This Act has been repealed — see The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (from 2024-07-01). The prior text continues to govern matters arising before that date.

Sentence of Europeans and Americans to penal servitude. Proviso as to sentence for term exceeding ten years but not for life

The IPC 1860 was replaced by the BNS 2023 (in force 2024-07-01); no verified section mapping on file for Section 56 — confirm the corresponding provision (savings: Section 358, BNS 2023).

[Rep. by the Criminal Law (Removal of Racial Discriminations) Act, 1949 (17 of 1949) (w.e.f. 6-4-1949).]