The IDENTIFICATION OF PRISONERS ACT, 1920

Sections

Section 1 — Short title and extent.

(1) This Act may be called the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920; and 2 [(2) It extends 3 to the whole of India except 4 [the territories which, immediately before lst November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States].]

STATE AMENDMENTS Karnataka Amendment of Central Act 33 of 1920.—In the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920 (Central Act 33 of 1920),—

(1) in sub-section (2) of section 1, after the words and letter “Par t B States”, the following words, brackets, letters and figures shall be added, namely: — “other than the territories specified in clause (a) and clause (c) of sub -section (1) of section 7 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 (Central Act 37 of 1956).”; [Vide Karnataka Act 29 of 1975, s. 4].

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  1. 1.Short title and extent.
  2. 2.Definitions.
  3. 3.Taking of measurements, etc., of convicted persons.
  4. 4.Taking of measurements, etc., of non-convicted persons.
  5. 5.Power of Magistrate to order a person to be measured or photographed.
  6. 6.Resistance to the taking measurements, etc.
  7. 7.Destruction of photographs and records of measurements, etc., on acquittal.
  8. 8.Power to make rules.
  9. 9.Bar of suits.