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The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898

( ACT NO. V OF 1898 )

[ 22nd March, 1898 ]

Part III

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Chapter VII

OF PROCESSES TO COMPEL THE PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS AND OTHER MOVABLE PROPERTY, AND FOR THE DISCOVERY OF PERSONS WRONGFULLY CONFINED

B.-Search-warrants

Order of Special Bench setting aside forfeiture

99D.(1) On receipt of the application, the Special bench shall, if it is not satisfied that the issue of the newspaper, or the book or other document, in respect of which the application has been made, contained 1[any such matter, word or visible representation] as is referred to in sub-section (1) of section 99A, set aside the order of forfeiture.

 
 

(2) Where there is a difference of opinion among the judges forming the Special Bench the decision shall be in accordance with the opinion of the majority of those Judges.

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    The words and commas "any such matter, word or visible representation" were substituted, for the words "treasonable or seditious or other matter of such a nature" by section 4 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 1991 (Act No. XVI of 1991)
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