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The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898

Section 539BLocal inspection

In forcePart IX SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONSChapter XLVI MISCELLANEOUS

Part IX SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS

Chapter XLVI MISCELLANEOUS

s. 539B

539B. Local inspection (1) Any Judge or Magistrate may at any stage of any inquiry, trial or other proceeding, after due notice to the parties, visit and inspect any place in which an offence is alleged to have been committed, or any other place which it is in his opinion necessary to view for the purpose of property appreciating the evidence given at such inquiry or trial, and shall without unnecessary delay record a memorandum of any relevant facts observed at such inspection. (2) Such memorandum shall form part of the record of the case. If the Public Prosecutor, complainant or accused so desires, a copy of the memorandum shall be furnished to him free of cost: [* * *]]

  1. 566. Proviso was omitted by section 2 and Schedule of the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1978 (Ordinance No. XLIX of 1978)

End of s. 539B. Not in the index for this Act: Schedule (sub).

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