CHAPTER VI - PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE
Section 26. Cognizance of offences.
No court shall take cognizance of any offence under this Act except on a complaint made by, or with the previous sanction in writing of, the inspector and no court inferior to that of a Presidency Magistrate or a magistrate of the first class shall try any offence punishable under this Act.
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- 1. 10th February, 1971, vide notification No. G.S.R. 190, dated 1st February, 1971, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II,sec. 3(i).
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- 1. Subs. by Act 14 of 1986, s. 2, for clause (a) (w.e.f. 28-1-1986).
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- *. Vide notification No. S.O. 3912(E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammuand Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh.
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- 1. Ins. by Act 4 of 2005, s. 2 and the Schedule (w.e.f. 11-1-2005).