Code of Criminal Procedure (Orissa Amendment) Act, 1959 1. Short title and commencement. 2. Amendment of Section 17, Act 5 of 1898. The Code of Criminal Procedure (Orissa Amendment) Act, 1959
Orissa Act No. 21 of 1959
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Published vide Orissa Gazette Extraordinary/11.11.1959.
For the Bill See Orissa Gazette Extraordinary/9.3.1959.
An Act to Amend the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Orissa in the Tenth Year of the Republic of India as follows :
- Short title and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Code of Criminal Procedure (Orissa Amendment) Act, 1969.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
- Amendment of Section 17, Act 5 of 1898.- In Sub-section (4) of Section 17 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 after the words "by the District Magistrate" the words "or in his absence at headquarters by the Additional District Magistrate or if there be more than one such Additional District Magistrate by any one of them", shall be inserted.

