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Section 22B: Power of Court to try cases summarily.

The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956Central Act · Act 104 of 1956

[22B.Power of Court to try cases summarily.--Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), the State Government may, if it considers it necessary so to do, direct that offences under this Act shall be tried in a summary way by a magistrate including the presiding officer of a court established under sub-section (1) of section 22A and the provisions of Section 262 to 265 (both inclusive) of the said Code shall, as far as may be, apply to such trial:

Provided that in the case of any conviction in a summary trial under this section it shall be lawful for the magistrate to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year:

Provided further that when at the commencement of, or in the course of, a summary trial under this section, it appears to the magistrate that the nature of the case is such that a sentence of imprisonment for a term exceeding one year may have to be passed or that it is, for any other reason, undesirable to try the case summarily, the magistrate shall, after hearing the parties, record an order to that effect and thereafter recall any witness, who may have been examined and proceed to hear or rehear the case in the manner provided by the said Code.]

Where this provision sits

ActThe Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956
Section22B
Marginal notePower of Court to try cases summarily.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • inserted, Act 44 of 1986. . Ins. by Act 44 of 1986, s. 22 (w.e.f. 26-1-1987).

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