Criminal Law (Amendment ) Act, 1993

(Act No. I of Svt. 1993)

 

CRIMINAL LAW (AMENDMENT) ACT, SAMVA T 1993 (1936 A.D.) 175

THE CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT ACT 1993 (1936 A. D. ).

ACT NO. I OF SVT. 993.

CONTENTS

Preamble

Section.		Section.
1.	Short title and extent.	4.	Amendment of Code of Criminal Procedure, Act No. XXIII of 1989.
2.	Dissemination of contents of pre-scribed documents.
		5.	Section 108-A. Power to arrest and detain suspected persons.
3.	Amendment of Code of Criminal Procedure, Act No. XXIII of 1989.

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176 CRIMINAL LAW (AMENDMENT) ACT, SAMVT 1993 (1936 A.D)

 

CRIMINAL LAW (AMENDMENT) ACT, SAMVA T 1993 (1936 A.D.) 177

THE CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT ACT, 1993 (1936 A. D. ).

(Act No. I of Samvat 1993)

[Received the assent of His Highness the Maharaja Bahadur on

7th April, 1936/26th Chet, 1992, and published in Government Gazette

dated 12th Baisakh, 1993.]

Whereas it is expedient to supplement the criminal law in the manner hereinafter appearing. It is hereby enacted as follows :––

## Section 1. Short title and extent.––(1) This Act may be called the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1993.

(2) It extends to the whole of Jammu and Kashmir State.

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## Section 3. Amendment of Code of Criminal Procedure Act No. XXIII of 1989.––(1) 2[The Government] may, by notification in the Jammu and Kashmir Government Gazette, declare that any off COURT FEES ACT, SAMVA T 1977 177ence punishable under sections 186, 188, 189, 190, 228, 295-A, 298, 505, 506 or 507 of the Ranbir Penal Code, when committed in any area specified in the notification, shall, notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, be cogni-zable.

2[The Government] may, in the like manner, declare that an offence punish-able under section 188 or section 506 of the Ranbir Penal Code shall be non-bail-able.

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1. By section 2, section 190-A, Ranbir Penal Code was added. By section 3 entry in Shedule II of the Code of Criminal Procedure regarding section 190-A, Ranbir Penal Code was added. Both these have been incorpotated in respective Codes.

2. In section 4 the words “The Government” substituted for the words “His Highness the Maharaja Bahadur in Council” by Act X of Svt. 1996.

3. By section 5, section 108-A was added to the Codeof Criminal Procedure. This was incorporated in the Code itself. (It was omitted latter on by Act XXV of Svt. 2011].