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SPECIAL TRIBUNALS, (SUPPLEMENTARYPROVISIONS) ACT 1946

ACT NO. 26 OF 1946

[22nd November, 1946.]

Short title and extent.

1. (1)Short title and extent. This Act may be called the Special Tribunals (Supplementary Provisions) Act, 1946.

(2) It extends to the whole of India except 1*[the territories which immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Par B States.]

Interpretation. 2.Interpretation. In this Act, " Special Tribunal " means a Special Tribunal constituted under the Criminal Law Amendment Ordinance, 1943 (39 of 1943).

Provision regarding sentences and orders of Special Tribunal whichcease to function. 3.Provision regarding sentences and orders of Special Tribunal which cease to function. When any Special Tribunal ceases to function, the sentence or orders passed by it in any case shall, for the purposes of the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898), applicable in respect of those sentences or orders, be deemed, to have been passed by the Court of Session within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the offences charged in the case are alleged to have taken place, or, if there be more than one such Court of Session, by such one of them as the High Court, either in appeal or in revision or on a reference made to it specially in this behalf, may determine: Provided that the references in this section to a Court of Session shall, where the offences charged in the case are alleged to have taken place in a presidency-town, be construed as references to the Chief Presidency Magistrate.

Repeal of Ordinance 23 of 1946. 4.[Repeal of Ordinance 23 of 1946.] Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1950 (35 of 1950), s. 2 and Sch. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 3) Order, 1956, for " Part B States". ----------------------------------------------------------------