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…State Act of Tamil Nadu · Act 1 of 1986

(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.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Tamil Nadu Scrap Merchants and Dealers in Second-hand Property and Owners of Automobile Workshops and Tinker Shops (Regulation, Control and Licensing) Act, 1985.
Section	14
Marginal note	Power to try offences
Jurisdiction	State of Tamil Nadu
Status	In force as published by the source

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