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The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898

Section 1Short title Commencement

In forcePart I PRELIMINARYChapter I

Part I PRELIMINARY

Chapter I

s. 1

1. Short title Commencement (1) This Act may be called the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898; and it shall come into force on the first day of July, 1898. [Extent] (2) It extends to the whole of Bangladesh; but, in the absence of any specific provision to the contrary, nothing herein contained shall affect any special [* * *] law now in force, or any special jurisdiction or power conferred, or any special form of procedure prescribed, by any other law for the time being in force.

  1. 1. The words "or local" were omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)

End of s. 1. Not in the index for this Act: Schedule (sub).

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