CrPC · Chapter XXXIII · Provisions as to bail and bonds

CrPC section 450 in the BNSS

CrPC 450BNSS 496

CrPC section 450, “Power to direct levy of amount due on certain recognizances”, is now BNSS section 496 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, in force from 1 July 2024.

What changed

From CrPC 450 to BNSS 496

Now BNSS section 496, with the same power.

The official text

Old and new, side by side

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Section 450 Power to direct levy of amount due on certain recognizances

The High Court or Court of Sessions may direct any Magistrate to levy the amount due on a bond for appearance or attendance at such High Court or Court of Session.

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Section 496 Power to direct levy of amount due on certain recognizances

The High Court or Court of Session may direct any Magistrate to levy the amount due on a bond for appearance or attendance at such High Court or Court of Session.

The texts are India Code’s. The amendment markers and footnotes of the official print are left out, so the old section reads as it stood when it was repealed; State amendments are not shown. The PDFs linked below carry the full history.

Old law or new?

Which one applies to a case

The BNSS repealed the CrPC from 1 July 2024 (section 531(1)). Any appeal, application, trial, inquiry or investigation pending immediately before that date is disposed of under the CrPC as it then stood, as if the BNSS had not come into force (section 531(2)(a)). Anything not pending on that date follows the BNSS.