{"act":{"id":"andhra-pradesh-gaming-act-1974","short_title":"The Andhra Pradesh Gaming Act, 1974","long_title":null,"act_number":"27","act_year":1974,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Andhra Pradesh","unit":"section","section_count":13,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/1b4e90c0-eef2-4424-aaa8-d801c99a6f44.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/andhra-pradesh-gaming-act-1974/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"13","heading":null,"text":"Indemnification of persons concerned who are examined as witnesses - Any person who is concerned in gaming contrary to the provisions of this Act, and who is examined as a witness before a magistrate on the trial of any person for a breach of any of the provisions of this Act and who upon such examination, makes true and faithful discovery to the best of his knowledge of all things as to which he is so examined, shall thereupon receive from the said magistrate a certificate in writing to that effect and shall be freed from any prosecution under this Act for anything previously done in respect of that particular gaming.","html":"<p>Indemnification of persons concerned who are examined as witnesses - Any person who is concerned in gaming contrary to the provisions of this Act, and who is examined as a witness before a magistrate on the trial of any person for a breach of any of the provisions of this Act and who upon such examination, makes true and faithful discovery to the best of his knowledge of all things as to which he is so examined, shall thereupon receive from the said magistrate a certificate in writing to that effect and shall be freed from any prosecution under this Act for anything previously done in respect of that particular gaming.</p>","words":111,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/andhra-pradesh-gaming-act-1974/section/13/","note":null,"source_note":"Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/1b4e90c0-eef2-4424-aaa8-d801c99a6f44.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/031eb2f2-f859-4331-bc3c-5837b07ae6cd/content).","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}