IPC Section 55A - Definition Of 'Appropriate Government'

IPC Section 55A states that -

• The meaning of the term 'appropriate government' used in Sections 54 & 55. 
• "Appropriate Government" means "Central Government" in which the punishment is a death sentence or for an offence relating to any law for the matter to which the executive power of the Union extends, the Central Government; And
• "Appropriate Government" means "State Government" in which the punishment (whether of death or not) is for an offence against any law concerned. Matters in which the executive power of the State extends in which the offender is punished.

[Corresponding Provision in BNS: Section 5 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023]