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In any of the following cases, that is to say.- (a) where it appears to any Civil Court that the evidence of a person confined in any prison within the State, who for any of the causes mentioned in Section 15 or 16 cannot be removed in material in any matter pending before it; or (b) where it appears to any such Court as aforesaid that the evidence of a person confined in any prison so situate, and more than ten miles distant from the place at which such Court is held is material in any such matter; or (c) where the District Judge declines, under Section 11, to countersign an order for removal.The Court may, if it thinks fit, issue a commission, under the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure for the time beging in force for the examination of the person in the prison in which he is confined.