Criminal Procedure Code 145 Issuance of Practice Direction 272k. The Chief Justice may, where necessary, issue Practice Direction relating to the use of mechanical means and any matter related to it. Chapter XXVI JUDGMENT Mode of delivering judgment 273. The judgment in every trial in any criminal Court of original jurisdiction shall be pronounced in open court, either immediately or at some subsequent time of which due notice shall be given to the parties or their advocates, and the accused shall, if in custody, be brought up or, if not in custody, shall be required to attend to hear judgment delivered, except where his personal attendance during the trial has been dispensed with and the sentence is one of fine only. 274. (Deleted by F.M. No. 1 of 1948). Sentence of death not to be passed on pregnant woman 275. Where a woman convicted of an offence punishable with death is alleged to be pregnant, or where the Court before whom a woman is so convicted thinks fit, the Court shall direct one or more medical practitioners to be sworn to examine that woman in some private place and to enquire whether she is pregnant or not, and if upon the report of any of them it appears that she is pregnant the sentence to be passed upon her shall be a sentence of *imprisonment for life instead of sentence of death. Judgment in the alternative 276. When a conviction is under the Penal Code and it is doubtful under which of two sections or under which of two parts of the same section of that Code the offence falls, the Court shall state accordingly and pass judgment in the alternative. *NOTE—A sentence of imprisonment for life shall be deemed for all purposes to be a sentence of imprisonment for thirty years—see section 3 of the Criminal Justice Act 1953 [Act 345].