Section 21: Offences to be tried by Executive Magistrate.

The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013Central Act · Act 25 of 2013

(1) The State Government may confer, on an Executive Magistrate, the powers of aJudicial Magistrate of the first class for the trial of offences under this Act; and, on suchconferment of powers, the Executive Magistrate, on whom the powers are so conferred, shallbe deemed, for the purposes of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), to be a Judicial Magistrateof the first class.

(2) An offence under this Act may be tried summarily.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013
Section	21
Marginal note	Offences to be tried by Executive Magistrate.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

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