THE TRANSFER OF PRISONERS ACT, 1950 
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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SECTIONS

1.  Short title and extent. 
2.  Definitions. 
3.  Removal of prisoners from one State to another.
 
 
 
THE TRANSFER OF PRISONERS ACT, 1950 
ACT NO. 29 OF 1950[^1]

[12th April, 1950.]

An Act to provide for the removal from one State to another of persons confined in a prison.

BE it enacted by Parliament as follows:—

1. Short title and extent.—(1) This Act may be called the Transfer of Prisoners Act, 1950. 
(2) It extends to the whole of India.

2. Definitions.—In this Act,—

(a) “court” includes any officer lawfully exercising civil, criminal or revenue jurisdiction; 

(b) “Government” or “State Government”, in relation to a Part C State, means the administrator 
thereof;

(c)  “prison”  includes  any  place  which  has  been  declared  by  State  Government,  by  general  or 
special order, to be a subsidiary jail. 

3. Removal of prisoners from one State to another.—(1) Where any person is confined in a prison 
in a State,— 

(a) under sentence of death, or 

(b) under, or in lieu of, a sentence of imprisonment or transportation, or 

(c) in default of payment of a fine, or 

(d) in default of giving security for keeping the peace or for maintaining good behaviour; 

the  Government  of  that  State  may,  with  the  consent  of  the  Government  of  any  other  State,  by  order, 
provide for the removal of the prisoner from that prison to any prison in the other State. 

(2) The  officer in  charge  of  the  prison to  which  any  person  is removed  under  sub-section (1)  shall 
receive and detain him, so far as may be, according to the exigency of any writ, warrant or order of the 
court  by  which  such  person  has been  committed,  or until  such person is  discharged  or removed  in  due 
course of law.

[^1]. The Act has been extended to—
Kohima and Mokakchung Districts by Reg. 7 of 1961;
Dadra and Nagar Haveli by Reg. 6 of 1963; 
Goa, Daman and Diu by notification No. GSR 430, dated 9-3-1965, see Gazette of India, Part II, s. 3(i).