Prisoners Act, 1900
No: 3 Dated: Feb, 02 1900
Prisoners Act, 1900
-: PRELIMINARY :-
1. Short title and extent.—(1) This Act may be called the Prisoners Act, 1900.
(2) It extends to the whole of India except the territories which immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States.
2. Definitions.— In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context.—
(a) “Court” includes a Coroner and any officer lawfully exercising civil, criminal or revenue jurisdiction; and
(b) “prison” includes any place which has been declared by the State Government, by general or special order, to be a subsidiary jail.
(c) “States” means the territories to which this Act extends.
(2) It extends to the whole of India except the territories which immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States.
2. Definitions.— In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context.—
(a) “Court” includes a Coroner and any officer lawfully exercising civil, criminal or revenue jurisdiction; and
(b) “prison” includes any place which has been declared by the State Government, by general or special order, to be a subsidiary jail.
(c) “States” means the territories to which this Act extends.
3. Officers in charge of prisons to detain persons duly committed to their custody.— The officer-in-charge of a prison shall receive and detain all persons duly committed to his custody, under this Act or otherwise, by any Court, according to the exigency of any writ warrant or order by which such person has been committed or until such person is discharged or removed in due course of law.
4. Officers-in-charge of prisons to return writs, etc., after execution or discharge.—The officer-in-charge of a prison shall forthwith, after the execution of every such writ, order or warrant as aforesaid other than a warrant of commitment for trial, or after the discharge of the person committed thereby, return such writ, order or warrant to the Court by which the same was issued or made, together with a certificate, endorsed thereon and signed by him, showing how the same has been executed, or why the person committed thereby has been discharged from custody before the execution thereof.