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CHAPTER 25
APPEAL AND REVISION--CRIMINAL

PART D -- NOTICE OF APPEAL

In railway cases notice to District Magistrate and Railway authority.-- The following notifications under section 422 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, prescribing the officers to whom notice is to be given of an appeal which is not summarily rejected, are re-printed for information and guidance.

I -- PUNJAB GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION NO. 172, DATED THE 28TH JANUARY, 1891.

With reference to section 422 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1882, prescribing that any Appellate Court which does not reject an appeal summarily shall cause notice to be given to such officers as the Provincial Government may appoint in this behalf, the Hon'ble the Lieutenant-Governor (now Governor) is pleased to direct that in the case of an appeal preferred by a Railway employee in a case in which he has been convicted of an offence committed in his capacity of Railway servant, the Appellate Court shall cause notice to be given of the time and place of hearing of such appeal to the Head of the Railway Administration concerned as well as to the District Magistrate as directed in Punjab Government Notification No.108-597, dated 8th February, 1883.

II -- PUNJAB GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION NO. 206, DATED THE 10TH FEBRUARY, 1905.

Postal cases. Notice to District Magistrate and Postmaster General.-- With reference to section 422 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, prescribing that any Appellate Court which does not reject an appeal summarily shall cause notice to be given to such officer as the Provincial Government may appoint in this behalf, the Hon'ble the Lieutenant-Governor (now governor) is pleased to direct that in the case of an appeal preferred by a Postal employee in a case in which he has been convicted of an offence committed in his capacity of a Postal servant, the Appellate Court shall cause notice to be given of the time and place of hearing of such appeal to the Postmaster-General, Punjab and North-west Frontier Province, as well as to the District Magistrate concerned, as directed in Punjab Government Notification No.108-597, dated 8th February, 1883.

III -- PUNJAB GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION NO.1110-J-37/13020/HOME-JUDICIAL, DATED THE IST APRIL, 1937.

Notice to Advocate-General and District Magistrate in other cases.-- With reference to section 422 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, the Governor of the Punjab is pleased to direct, in supersession of Punjab Government notification No.1764, dated the 7th December, 1898, that in the case of appeals other than those which lie to the District Magistrate or other Magistrate empowered to hear appeals under section 407 of the Code, the Appellate Court shall cause notice of the time and place of hearing to be given-

(1) to the Advocate-General, Punjab, in all cases in which the sentence is one of death, imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for a term not less than ten years;

(2) to the District Magistrate in other cases.

IV -- PUNJAB GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION NO.1776-JJ-50/ 29746, DATED THE 30TH MAY, 1950.

In pursuance of the powers conferred by section 422 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, the Governor of the Punjab is pleased to direct in partial modification of Punjab Government Notification No.1110-J-37/13020, dated the Ist April 1937, that in cases challaned by the Pakistan Special Police Establishment, the Appellate Court shall cause notice of the time and place of hearing of the appeal to be given to the Superintendent of Police, Special Police Establishment.

V -- GOVERNMENT OF WEST PAKISTAN, HOME DEPARTMENT NOTIFICATION NO.JUDL-1-4(II)/60, DATED THE 8TH AUGUST, 1961.

In pursuance of section 422 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 and in continuation of Government of West Pakistan, Home Department notification No.Judl-1-4(II)/60, dated the 21st June 1960 (hereinafter referred to as the said notification), the Governor of West Pakistan is pleased to appoint--

(i) the Governor of State Bank of Pakistan; and

(ii) the Secretary to the Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Finance,

as the Officer to whom (in addition to the Officers to whom notice is to be given in compliance with the said notification) notice in the matter of appeal made to the High Court of West Pakistan against conviction under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947 shall be given by the said Court, of the time and place at which such appeal will be heard.

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