THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1973
ACT NO. 2 OF 1974
[25th January, 1974.]
An Act to
Procedure.
consolidate
and
amend
the
law
relating
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-fourth
Republic of India as follows:-
to
Criminal
Year
of
the
CHAP
PRELIMINARY
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
1.
Short title extent and commencement.
1. Short title extent and commencement. (1) This
called the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.
(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of
Kashmir:
Act
may
Jammu
Provided that the provisions of this Code, other than
relating to Chapters VIII, X and XI thereof, shall not apply(a)
to the State of Nagaland,
(b)
to the tribal areas,
be
and
those
but the concerned State Government may, by notification, apply such
provisions or any of them to the whole or part of the State of
Nagaland or such tribal areas, as the case may be, with such
supplemental, incidental or consequential modifications, as may be
specified in the notification.
Explanation.-In
this
section, "tribal
areas"
means
the
territories which immediately before the 21st day of January, 1972,
were included in the tribal areas of Assam, as referred to in
paragraph 20 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution, other than
those within the local limits of the municipality of Shillong.
(3)
It shall come into force on the 1st day of April, 1974.