section 14
Power to try offences
The Tamil Nadu Scrap Merchants and Dealers in Second-Hand Property and Owners of Automobile Workshops and Tinker Shops (Regulation, Control and Licensing) Act, 1985General198517 sections
Statutory text
Power to try offences.—
- (1) No court inferior to that of a Metropolitan Magistrate or a Judicial Magistrate of the first class shall try any offence punishable under this Act.
- (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in Section 29 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974), it shall be lawful for the Magistrates specified in sub-section
- (1) to pass a sentence of fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees.
- (3) No court shall take cognizance of an offence punishable under this Act other than an offence punishable under section 10 except on a complaint in writing made by any prescribed authority.
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