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r Courts) R u t e S i 1 9 6 9 ^ ^ ^ ^ ) Punjab Prisoners (Attendance , ^ ^ ^ ^ Published Notification n\No.No. G'Sf%C^ f%C^ / N O T IIC A T H O tf ers conferred by section 9 oftlle No. G.S.R. 7/CA 32/55/S.9/69 - In exerc.se: o f the Qf , 955)> the President o f India Prisoners (Attendance in Courts) Act, 1955 ( is pleased to make the following rules , Th. „ rL1|es may be called the Punjab Prisoners thih idiff , „ 1. Short title and commencement. - These r y j y w ith immediate effect. (Attendance in Courts) Rules, 1969 and shall come into Definitions. - In these rules, unless the context otherwise rcquiscs, (a) “ Act” means the Prisoners (Attendance in Courts) Act, 1955; (b) “ Section” means the section of the Act; (c) “ State Government” means the Government o f the Stale of Punjab; (d) “ Superintendent of prison” means the officer incharge o f prison; and (e) All other words and expressions used in these rules and not defined herein shall have the same meaning as are respectively assigned to them in the Act or in the Prisoners Act, 1900 (3 of 1900), as the case may be. Procedure for obtaining counter-signatures. [Sections 3 and 9 (2)(a)|. - Every order submitted to the District Magistrate or the District Judge for counter-signature under sub-section (3) of section 3 of the Act shall be accompanied by a statement under the hand of the Presiding Officer of the subordinate court o f the facts which in his opinion render the order necessary and the District Magistrate or the District Judge, as the case may be, after considering such statement, countersign the order or decline to counter-sign it. How a declaration that person confined in prison is unfit to be removed is to be made. [Sections 6 and 9(2)(b)j. - When the person named in any order made under section 3 appears 

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1 · Short title and commencement. - These r y j

11 · Intimation by Superintendent of Prison to Police for carrying prisoner to court. [Section 9(2)(e)[. - (1) A notice of intended production o f prisoner before a court shall be given in w riting by the Superintendent o f Prison to the police authorities one day in advance (excluding Sundays and holidays), if required for duty within the district, and of four days in advance if required to proceed beyond the district. The requisition shall bem writing, however, telephonic message may dc sent aS'hdvaneb intimation of the written requisition.

12 · Duty of Police to provide escort of prisoners. [(Section 9(2)(c)(f) and (g)]. - (1) The escort o f prisoners under the Act shall be undertaken by the police, whenever an order for the production o f prisoner to give evidence or to answer a charge, under the Act, is received from a com petent court by the Superintendent o f Prisons. Such Officer shall (unless such order may be and is disobeyed under the authority o f provisions o f section 6 o f the Act) send a copy o f court's order to the Superintendent o f Police in whose jurisdiction such a prison is situated, who thereupon shall cause the necessary police guard to be detailed in accordance with the terms o f the order and prisoner shall be made over to the custody o f this guard. Such Superintendent o f Police shall be responsible for providing the escort hereinafter described and, for safe custody o f the prisoner named in such order until he is re-delivered to a prison. Whenever a prisoner is produced before a court, Situated outside the district in which he is confined the officer in-charge o f the prisoner shall report the fact o f such production to the District M agistrate and the Superintendent o f Police o f the district, from which the prisoner is so produced.

2U · Wet of prisoners during escort. [(Section 9(2)(c)(i) and (g)]. - The InspectorGeneral of Prisons shall, from time to time, fix the scale of diet for prisoners removed under these rules, and the officer-in-charge of the escort shall provide prisoners with diet in accordance with such scale. Where the court in which evidence is to be given is situated at the station where the Prison from which the prisoner is removed is situated the Superintendent ol Prisons shall supply the prisoners food ready cooked. When the aforesaid court is situated at a distance, the estimated cost ofthe prisoners, ration shall be paid to the of ficer-m-charge of the police escort, by the Superintendent of Prisons. But it shall be in the competency of any court in criminal cases to decline to summon any prisoner if lie court is satisfied that his evidence is not necessary in the interest of public justice and if the complainant and or defendant applying for the said prisoner's examination before