Section 7Sessions divisions and districts

In forcePart II CONSTITUTION AND POWERS OF CRIMINAL COURTS AND OFFICESChapter II OF THE CONSTITUTION OF CRIMINAL COURTS AND OFFICES

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Part II CONSTITUTION AND POWERS OF CRIMINAL COURTS AND OFFICES

Chapter II OF THE CONSTITUTION OF CRIMINAL COURTS AND OFFICES

B. -Territorial Divisions

s. 7

7. Sessions divisions and districts (1) Bangladesh shall consist of sessions divisions: and every sessions division shall, for the purposes of this Code, be a district or consist of districts. [Power to alter divisions and districts] (2) The Government may alter the limits or the number of such divisions and districts. [Existing divisions and districts maintained till altered] . (3) The sessions divisions and districts existing when this Code comes into force shall be sessions divisions and districts respectively, unless and until they are so altered. [(4) [A] Metropolitan Area shall, for the purposes of this Code, be deemed to be a sessions division.]

11. Sub-section (4) was added by section 2 and Schedule of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Ordinance, 1976 (Ordinance No. LXXXVI of 1976)
12. The letter "A" was substituted, for the words "the Dacca" by section 2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 1980 (Act No. IV of 1980)

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