CrPC § 565 — Order for notifying address of previously convicted offender

Statutory text (English)

(1) When any person having
been convicted—
(a) by a Court in
[Pakistan] of an offence punishable under Section 215, Section 489A, Section 489B,
Section 489C, or Section 489D of the Pakistan Penal Code, (XLV of 1860), or of any offence punishable
under Chapter XII or Chapter XVII of that Code, with imprisonment of either description for a term of three
years or upwards, or
* * * * * * *
is again convicted of any offence punishable under any of those sections or Chapters with imprisonment
for a term of three years or upwards by a High Court, Court of Sessions,
* *, District Magistrate, Sub-
divisional Magistrate or Magistrate of the first class, such Court or Magistrate may, if it or he thinks fit, at
the time of passing sentence of
* * imprisonment on such person, also order that his residence and any
change of or change of or absence from such residence after release be notified as hereinafter provided for a
term not exceeding five years from the date of the expiration of such sentence.

(2) If such conviction is set aside on appeal or otherwise, such order shall become void.

(3) The
[Provincial Government] may make rules to carry out the provisions of this section relating to
the notification of residence or change of or absence from residence by released convicts.

(4) An order under this section may also be made by an Appellate Court or by the High Court when
exercising its power of revision.
* * * * * * *
[
(5) Any person charged with a breach of any such rule may be tried by a Magistrate of competent
jurisdiction in the district in which the place last notified by him as his place of residence is situated.]
SCHEDULE I. Enactments Repealed.] Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1914 (X of 1914 ),
s. 3 and Schedule II.
Sub-section

(1) of section 10 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1932, provides that the Provicial
Government may, by notification in the official Gazette declare that any offence punishable under section
186, 188, 189, 190, 228, 295A, 298, 505, 506 or 507 of the Pakistan Penal Code, when committed in any
area specified in the notification shall, notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal
Procedure, 1898, be cognizable, and thereupon the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, shall, while such
notification remains in force, be deemed to be amended accordingly. Sub-section

(2) of section 10 ibid
provides that the Provincial Government may, in like manner and subject to the like conditions, and with the
like effect, declare that an offence punishable under section 188 or section 506 of the Pakistan Penal Code
shall be non-bailable.

Source and verification

Source citation: CrPC (Act V of 1898) s.565: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE' (Act No. V of 1898, last amended 2017-02-16), p. 200, 201, ingested 2026-09-15. Automated transcription from official source (pypdf extraction, audited artifact repair); human admin re-check required before production.

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