LawgistThe Identification of Prisoners Act
3Taking of measurements, etc., of convicted persons
Every person who has been—
(a) convicted of any offence punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term of one year or upwards, or of any offence which would render him liable to enhanced punishment on a subsequent conviction; or
(b) ordered to give security for his good behaviour under section 118 of the 5 Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898),
shall, if so required, allow his measurements and photograph to be taken by a police officer the prescribed manner.
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1. See now s. 117 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).
All sections
- 1 Short title and extent
- 2 Definitions
- 3 Taking of measurements, etc., of convicted persons
- 4 Taking of measurements, etc., of non-convicted persons
- 5 Power of Magistrate to order a person to be measured or photographed
- 6 Resistance to the taking measurements, etc
- 7 Destruction of photographs and records of measurements, etc., on acquittal
- 8 Power to make rules
- 9 Bar of suits
