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THE JUDICIAL OFFICERS’ PROTECTION ACT, 1850 
 
 
 
CONTENTS 
 
PREAMBLE 
 
1.  Non-liability to suit of officers acting judicially, for official acts done in good faith, and of 
officers executing warrants and orders 
 

 
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1[THE JUDICIAL OFFICERS` PROTECTION ACT, 1850] 
ACT No. XVIII OF 1850 
[4th April, 1850] 
An Act for the protection of Judicial Officers 
 
PREAMBLE 
For the greater protection of Magistrates and others acting judicially; It is enacted as follows:– 
 1. Non-liability to suit of  officers acting judicially, for official acts done in good faith, 
and of officers executing warrants and orders.  No Judge, Magistrate, Justice of the Peace, 
Collector or other person acting judicially shall be liable to be sued in any Civil Court for any act 
done or ordered to be done by him in the dis charge of his judicial duty, whether or not within the 
limits of his jurisdiction: Provided that he at the time, in good faith, believed himself to have 
jurisdiction to do or order the act complained of ; an d no officer of any Court or other person, bound 
to execute the lawful warrants or orders of any such Judge, Magistrate, Justice of the Peace, 
Collector or other person acting judicially shall be liable to be sued in any Civil Court, for the 
execution of any warrant or order, which he would be bound to execute, if within the jurisdiction of 
the person issuing the same2. 
 
 
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Date: 13-09-2024 
1Short title given by the Short Titles Act, 1897 (14 of 1897). 
The Act has been declared to be in force in all the Provinces and the Capital of the Federation except the Scheduled Districts, by the Laws Local Extent 
Act, 1874 (15 of 1874), s. 3. 
It has been declared in force in the Baluchistan by the British Baluchistan Laws Regulation, 1913 (2 of 1913), s. 3. 
It has also been declared, by notification under s. 3(a) of the Scheduled Districts Act, 1874 (14 of 1874), to be in force in the following Scheduled Di s-
tricts, namely:- 
 Sind . . . . . . See Gazette of India, 1878, Pt. I, p. 482. 
The Districts of  Hazara, Peshawar, Kohat, Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan and Dera Ghazi Khan. [Portions of the Districts of Hazara, Bannu. Dera Ismai l 
Khan and Dera Ghazi Khan and the Districts of Peshawar and Kohat now form the N.W.F.P.. see Gazette of India. 1901 Pt. I,p. 857, and ibid., 1902, Pt. 
I ,p . 575; but its application has been barred in that part of the Hazara District know n as Upper Tanawal, by the Hazara (Upper Tanawal) Regulation), 
1900 (2 of 1900), s. 3.] 
2As to procedure for instituting criminal prosecutions aga inst Judges and public servants,  see the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act 5 of 1898), 
section 197.