Power for Civil Courts to require appearance of prisoner to give evidence

Subject to the provisions of section 39, any Civil Court may, if it thinks that the evidence of any person confined in any prison within the local limits of its appellate jurisdiction, if it is the High Court, or, if it is not the High Court, then within the local limits of the appellate jurisdiction of the High Court, is material in any matter pending before it, make an order in the form set forth in the first schedule, directed to the officer in charge of the prison.