Skip to content

The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898

Section 178Power to order cases to be tried in different sessions divisions

In forcePart VI PROCEEDINGS IN PROSECUTIONSChapter XV OF THE JURISDICTION OF THE CRIMINAL COURTS IN INQUIRIES AND TRIALS

Part VI PROCEEDINGS IN PROSECUTIONS

Chapter XV OF THE JURISDICTION OF THE CRIMINAL COURTS IN INQUIRIES AND TRIALS

s. 178

178. Power to order cases to be tried in different sessions divisions Notwithstanding anything contained in section 177, the Government may direct that any cases or class of cases [sent] for trial in any district may be tried in any sessions division: [* * *]

  1. 219. The word "sent" was substituted, for the word "committed" by section 2 and Schedule of the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1978 (Ordinance No. XLIX of 1978)
  2. 220. The proviso was omitted by section 5 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Third Amendment) Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. LX of 1982)

End of s. 178. Not in the index for this Act: Schedule (sub).

Read the contents: The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898