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Provided always that upon the execution of such warrant the provisions of section 58 shall apply. | (1) When a warrant of arrest is to be executed outside the local limits of the jurisdiction of the court issuing it, the court shall ordinarily forward it by post or otherwise to the Magistrate's Court within the local limits of the jurisdiction of which it is to be executed. |
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| (2) A Magistrate of the Magistrate's Court to which the warrant is so forwarded shall endorse his name thereon and if practicable cause it to be executed within the local limits of his jurisdiction. |
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| (3) Whenever there is reason to believe that the delay or publicity occasioned by obtaining the endorsement of the Magistrate within the local limits of whose jurisdiction a warrant is to be executed will prevent such execution, the court issuing the warrant may direct the warrant specially to any person ; and a warrant so specially directed shall have effect and may lawfully be executed by such person without such endorsement as aforesaid anywhere within Sri Lanka : |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts