XXVI
30 sections
General Provisions as to Inquiries and Trials
- Section337Person once convicted or acquitted not to be tried for same offence
- Section338Appearance by Public Prosecutors
- Section339Permission to conduct prosecution
- Section340Right of person against whom proceedings are instituted to be defended
- Section341Legal aid to accused at State expense in certain cases
- Section342Procedure when corporation or registered society is an accused
- Section343Tender of pardon to accomplice
- Section344Power to direct tender of pardon
- Section345Trial of person not complying with conditions of pardon
- Section346Power to postpone or adjourn proceedings
- Section347Local inspection
- Section348Power to summon material witness, or examine person present
- Section349Power of Magistrate to order person to give specimen signatures or handwriting, etc
- Section350Expenses of Complainants and witnesses
- Section351Power to Examine accused
- Section352Oral arguments and memorandum of arguments
- Section353Accused person to be competent witness
- Section354No influence to be used to induce disclosure
- Section355Provision for inquiries and trial being held in absence of accused in certain cases
- Section356Inquiry, trial or judgment in absentia of proclaimed offender
- Section357Procedure where accused does not understand proceedings
- Section358Power to Proceed against other persons appearing to be guilty of offence
- Section359Compounding of offences
- Section360Withdrawal from prosecution
- Section361Procedure in cases which Magistrate cannot dispose of
- Section362Procedure when after commencement of inquiry or trial, Magistrate finds case should be committed
- Section363Trial of persons previously convicted of offences against coinage, stamp-law or property
- Section364Procedure when Magistrate cannot pass sentence sufficiently severe
- Section365Conviction or commitment on evidence partly recorded by one Magistrate and partly by another
- Section366Court to be open