Bare ActsThe Prisoners Act 1900

Section 18

Execution in the States of certain capital sentences not ordinarily executable there

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Execution in the States of certain capital sentences not ordinarily executable there. – (1) Where a 31[Court established by the authority of the Central Government] exercising, in or with respect to territory beyond the limits of the States, jurisdiction which the Central Government has in such territory, – a) has sentenced any person to death, and b) being of opinion that such sentence should, by reason of there being in such territory no secure place for the confinement of such person or no suitable appliances for his execution in a decent and humane manner, be executed in the States, has issued its warrant for the execution of such sentence to the officer-in-charge of a prison in the States, such officer shall, on receipt of the warrant, cause the execution to be carried out at such place as may be prescribed therein in the same manner, and subject to the same conditions in all respects as if it were a warrant duly issued under the provisions of [1][Section 381 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898).]32 29 Vide Bombay Act 7 of 1949, Sec 10 (w.e.f. 11th April, 1949) read with Act 15 of 1959, Secs. 2 and 3 and Maharashtra A.L.O. 1961. 30 Vide Madras Act 11 of 1958, Sec. 7 (4th June, 1958). 31 Substituted by A.O. 1948 for the words “British Court.” 32 See now the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974). (2) The prisons of which the officers-in-charge are to execute sentences under any such warrants as aforesaid shall in each State be such as the State Government may, by general or special order, direct. Part V Persons under Sentence of Penal Servitude Sections 19-27 – [Repealed by Section 4 of the Criminal Law (Removal of Racial Discriminations) Act, 1949 (17 of 1949) (with effect from 6th April, 1949)]. Part VI Removal of Prisoners

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