Prisoners Act, 1900
18. Execution in the State of certain capital sentences
not ordinarily executed there
(1) Where a 10[court established by the authority of the Central
Government] executing, in or with respect to territory beyond the limit of
11[the states] jurisdiction which the 12[Central Government] has in such
territory,-
(a) has sentenced any person to death, and,
(b) being of opinion that such sentenced
should, by reason of there being in such territory no secure place for the
confinement of such person or no suitable appliances for his execution in a
decent and human manner, be executed in 11[the States], has issued its warrant
for the execution of such sentence to the officer incharge of a prison in
11[the State] such officer shall, on receipt of the warrant, caused the
execution to be carried out at such place as may be prescribed therein in the
same manner, and subject to vision of section 381 of the Code of Criminal
Procedure, 1898.
(2) The prisons of which the officers in charge are to execute
sentences under any such warrants as aforesaid 13[shall in each 14[State] be
such as the 4[State Government]] may, by general or special order direct.