The Code of Criminal Procedure (Assam Amendment) Act, 1966

{
    "id": 14065,
    "slug": "the-code-of-criminal-procedure-assam-amendment-act-1966",
    "title": "The Code of Criminal Procedure (Assam Amendment) Act, 1966",
    "short_title": "The Code of Criminal Procedure (Assam Amendment) Act, 1966",
    "act_number": "Assam Act 20 of 1966",
    "act_year": 1966,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Code of Criminal Procedure (Assam Amendment) Act, 1966",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
    "sections": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 0
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "2. Amendment of Section 10 of Act No. 5 of 1898.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 1
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "3. Substitution of Section 22 of Act No. 5 of 1898.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in a Municipality, a ward as notified under the Assam Municipal Act, 1956, and\n(b) elsewhere, the area included in a police station.\"",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Insertion of Sections 22-A and 22-B in Act No. 5 of 1898.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in taking or preventing the escape of any person who has participated in the commission of any cognizable offence or against whom a reasonable complaint has been made or credible information has been received or a reasonable suspicion exists of his having so participated;\n(b) in the prevention of crime in general and, in particular, in the prevention of a breach of the peace or a disturbance of the public tranquillity.\n(ii) Where a member of the police force on duty or any Home Guard has been called upon to render aid under Clause (i), such call shall be deemed-\n(a) when made upon a member of the police force, to have been made by a competent authority.\n(b) when made upon a Home Guard, to have been made by a competent authority calling upon the Home Guard for duty under sub-section (i) of Section 7 of the Assam Home Guards Act, 1947.\n(a) issue a certificate as to the identity of any person residing within such area, or\n(b) verify any document brought before him by any person, or\n(c) attest any such document required by or under any law for the time being in force to be attested by a Magistrate, and until the contrary is proved, any certificate so issued shall be presumed to be correct and any document to be duly verified and any document so attested shall be deemed to have been as fully attested as if he had been a Magistrate.\n(a) on receipt of information of the occurrence of any incident involving a breach of the peace or of the commission of any offence within such local area, forthwith make inquiries into the matter and report in writing the result of his inquiries to the nearest Magistrate and to the officer-in-charge of the nearest police station;\n(b) if the offence referred to in Clause (a) is a cognizable offence, also prevent the removal of anything from or the interference in any way with the place of occurrence of the offence;\n(c) when so requested in writing by a Public Officer making an investigation under Chapter XIV in respect of any offence committed within such local area,-\n(i) render all assistance to the Police Officer making such an investigation,\n(ii) record any statement made under expectation of death by a person in respect of whom a crime is believed to have been committed.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "5. Repeal of Section 25 of Act No. 5 of 1898.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Powers of Magistrate.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Power to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 11th February, 2020 [ass129]",
        "Act Number": "Assam Act 20 of 1966",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1966",
        "Short Title": "The Code of Criminal Procedure (Assam Amendment) Act, 1966",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
}