In these rules, unless the context otherwise requises, -
(a) ‘*Act” means the Prisoners (Attendance in Courts) A ct, 1955;
() “Sig.iafi” means the section of the Act;
“State Government®’ means the Government of the State of Punjab;
/(d) **Superintendent of prison’” means the officer inchar ge of prison; and () All other words and expressions used in these r ules and not defined herein shall have the same meaning as are respectively assigned to them in the Act “or in the Prisoners Act, 1900 (3 of 1900), as the cas e may be.
3. Procedure for obtaining counter-signatures. [Se ctions 3 and 9 @@ - Every order submitted to the District Magistrate or the District Judge for counter-sigtion (3) of section 3 of the Act shall be accompanicd by 2 nature under sub-sec :
statement under the hand of the Presiding Office r of the subordinate court of the facts which in his opinion render the order necessary and the Dist rict Magistrate or the District Judge, as the case may, be, afier considerin g such statement, countersign the order or decline to counter-sign it .
removed is der made the n that person confined in prison is unfit to be 4. How a declaratio to be made. [Sections 6 and 9(2)(b)]. - When the pe rson named in any Or¢ under section 3 appears to be unfit to be rem oved for reasons given in section 16\/'lag- Superintendent of the Prison in which he is confined shall appl y to the District MaE- istoate, within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the prison is situated, and if v Magistrate by writing under his hand, declares himself to be of opini on that the per” son named in the order is unfit to be remove d for reasons mentioned in section 5 d‘g Superintendent of the Prison shall abstain from carryi ng out the order an shall Se’l') to the court from which the order had been issued a stateme nt of reasons for 50 8% staining.