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Public Servants (Inquiries) Act, 1850 Section 13

Title: Evidence for Prosecution and Examination of Witnesses, Re-examination by Prosecutor

State: Central

Year: 1850

The oral and documentary evidence for the prosecution shall then be exhibited; the witnesses shall be examined by or on behalf of the prosecutor and may be cross-examined by or on behalf of the person accused. The prosecutor shall be entitled to re-examine the witnesses on any points on which they have been cross-examined, but not on any new matter, without leave of the commissioners, who also may put such questions as they think fit.

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Indian Evidence Act 1872 Chapter 10

Title: Of the Examination of Witnesses

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....by the mere fact that he produces it, and cannot be cross-examined unless and until he is called as a witness. Section 140 - Witnesses to character Witnesses to character may be cross-examined and re-examined. Section 141 - Leading questions Any question suggesting the answer which the person pulling it wishes or expects to receive, is called a leading question. Section 142 - When they must not be asked Leading questions must not, if objected to by the adverse party, be asked in an examination-in-chief, or in a re-examination, except with the permission of the Court. The Court shall permit leading questions as to matters which are introductory or undisputed, or which have, in its opinion, been already sufficiently proved. Section 143 - When they may be asked Leading questions may be asked in cross-examination. Section 144 - Evidence as to matters in writing Any witness may be asked, whilst under examination whether any contract, grant or other disposition of property, as to which he is giving evidence, was not contained in a document, and if he says that it was, or if he is about to make any statement as to the contents of any document, which in the.....

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Indian Evidence Act 1872 Section 138

Title: Order of Examinations

State: Central

Year: 1872

Witnesses shall be first examined-in-chief, then (if the adverse party so desires) cross-examined, then (if the party calling him so desires) re-examined. The examination and cross-examination must relate to relevant facts but the cross-examination need not be confined to the facts to which the witness testified on his examination-in-chief. Direction of re-examination.The re-examination shall be directed to the explanation of matters referred to in cross-examination; and, if new matter is, by permission of the Court, introduced in re-examination, the adverse party may further cross-examine upon that matter.

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Indian Evidence Act 1872 Section 137

Title: Examination-in-chief

State: Central

Year: 1872

The examination of a witness by the party who calls him shall be called his examination-in-chief. Cross-examination.The examination of a witness by the adverse party shall be called his cross-examination. Re-examination.The examination of a witness, subsequent to the cross-examination by the party who called him, shall be called his re-examination.

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Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 98

Title: Qualification For, and Medical Examination Of, Seamen

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....the examination shall be conducted, and the fees payable therefor; (d) the form and contents of medical certificates and the period of their validity; (e) the re-examination by such medical authority as may be specified of persons who have been refused medical certificates of physical fitness in the first instance and the fees payable for such re-examination; (f) the circumstances in which, or the conditions subject to which, any seaman or class of seamen, or any ship or class of ships, may be exempted from the operation of sub-section (2). _________________________ 1. See the Indian Merchant Shipping (Medical Examination) Rules, 1958 made under Section 26A of the old Act of 1923.

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Section 311

Title: Power to Summon Material Witness, or Examine Person Present

State: Central

Year: 1973

Any Court may, at any stage of any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Code, summon any person as a witness, or examine any person in attendance, though not summoned as a witness, or recall and re-examine any person already examined; and the Court shall summon and examine or recall and re-examine any such person if his evidence appears to it to be essential to the just decision of the case.

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Navy Act, 1957 Section 137

Title: Power to Summon and Examine Material Witnesses

State: Central

Year: 1957

(1) The trial judge advocate may, at any stage of the trial, summon any person as a witness or examine any person in attendance, though not summoned as a witness, or recall and re-examine any person already examined; and the trial judge advocate shall summon and examine or recall and re-examine any such person if his evidence appears to the court or to the trial judge advocate as essential to the just decision of the case. (2) Summons to the witnesses shall be issued as provided under this Act.

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Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 Rule 1 to 19

Title: Hearing of the Suit and Examination of Witnesses

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....in open Court, direct their statements to be recorded on commission under rule 4A of Order XXVI.] __________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 22 of 2002, section 12(a) (w.e.f. 1-7-2002). 2. Sub-rule (4) inserted by Act 104 of 1976, section 69(i) (w.e.f. 1-2-1977) and omitted by Act 46 of 1999, section 27(i) (w.e.f. 1-7-2002). 3. Inserted by Act 104 of 1976, section 69(ii) (w.e.f. 1-2-1977). 3i. Inserted by Act 104 of 1976, Section 69(iv) (w.e.f. 01.02.1977). 3ii. Rule 17A was earlier inserted by Act 104 of 1976, section 69(vii) (w.e.f. 01.02.1977). 3iii. Inserted by Act 104 of 1976, section 69(ix) (w.e.f. 01.02.1977). 4. Substituted by Act 46 of 1999, section 27, for rule 4. 5. Substituted by Act 22 of 2002, section 12(b), for rule 4 as substituted by clause (ii) of section 27 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act, 1999 (46 of 1999) (w.e.f. 1-7-2002). 6. Substituted by Act 104 of 1976, section 69(iii), for rule 5 (w.e.f. 1-2-1977). 7. The provisions of rules 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 16, so far as they relate to the manner of taking evidence, are not applicable to the Chief Court of Oudh, see the Oudh Court Act, 1925 (U.P. 4 of 1925,.....

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Coast Guard Act, 1978 Section 82

Title: Examination of a Witness on Commission

State: Central

Year: 1978

.....by counsel, or except in the case of an accused person in custody, in person, and may examine, cross-examine and re-examine, as the case may be, the said witness. (3) After a commission issued under section 81 has been duly executed, it shall be returned together with the deposition of the witness examined thereunder to the Chief Law Officer. (4) On receipt of a commission, and deposition returned under sub-section (3), the Chief Law Officer shall forward the same to the Coast Guard Court at whose instance the commission was issued or, if such court has been dissolved, to any other court convened for the trial of the accused person and the commission, the return there to and the deposition shall be open to inspection by the prosecutor and the accused person and may subject to all just exceptions, be read in evidence in the case by either the prosecutor or the accused, and shall form part of the proceedings of the Court. (5) In every case in which a commission is issued under section 81, the trial may be adjourned for a specified time reasonably sufficient for the execution and return of the commission.

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Section 200

Title: Examination of Complainant

State: Central

Year: 1973

A Magistrate taking cognizance of an offence on complaint shall examine upon oath the complainant and the witnesses present, if any, and the substance of such examination shall be reduced to writing and shall be signed by the complainant and the witnesses, and also by the Magistrate: Provided that, when the complaint is made in writing, the Magistrate need not examine the complainant and the witnesses (a) if a public servant acting or purporting to act in the discharge of his official duties or a Court has made the complaint; or (b) if the Magistrate makes over the case for inquiry or trial to another Magistrate under section 192: Provided further that if the Magistrate makes over the case to another Magistrate under section 192 after examining the complainant and the witnesses, the latter Magistrate need not re-examine them.

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