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Section 27: Jurisdiction to try _offences

The Assam Opium Prohibition Act, 1947State Act of Assam · Act 23 of 1947

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898), the [State]* Government may invest any District Magistrate, Subdivisional Magistrate or Magistrate of the first class with power to try as a Magistrate all, or any specified, offences arising in his jurisdiction under section 5, [section 6,]t section 7, section 9, section 10 or section 18, and every Court of a Magistrate so empowered may pass any sentence authorised by the aforesaid sections respectively.

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ActThe Assam Opium Prohibition Act, 1947
Section27
Marginal noteJurisdiction to try _offences
JurisdictionState of Assam
StatusIn force as published by the source

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