Criminal Procedure Code

The Criminal Procedure Code Proclamation 1961

CONQUERING LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH

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ELECT OF GOD, EMPEROR OF ETHIOPIA

WSEREAS a criminal procedure Code has been prepared under Our supervision and has received the approval of Our Senate and Chamber of Deputies;

NOW THEREFORE, in accordance with Article 34 and 88 of Our Revised Constitution We approve the resolutions of Our Senate and Chamber of Deputies and We accordingly proclaim as follows:

1. This proclamation may be cited as “The Criminal Procedure Code Proclamation 1961.”

2. The Criminal Procedure Code 1961 as published in a separate volume appearing as Extraordinary Issue. No 1 of 1961 of the Negarit Gazeta shall come into force there months from the date of its publication in the negarit Gazeta.

Given at Addis Ababa, this 2nd day of November, 1961

TSAHAFE TAEZAZ AKLILU HABTE WORLD

Prime Minister and minister of Pen

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