(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 386 of the Code, where any offender has been sentenced by a Special Court to pay a fine, the Court may recover the fine by the issue of a warrant for the levy of the amount by attachment and sale of any property, movable or immovable, of the offender.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 545 of the Code, a Special Court may, when imposing a fine on any _person convicted by the Court, order the whole or any part of the fine recovered to be applied—
(a) in the payment to any person affected by the offence of compensation for any loss, injury or annoyance caused by the offence, or .
(b) in the payment of a reward to any person who has given information leading to the detection of the offence or to the conviction of the accused.
Appeals. 15. (1) Any person convicted on a trial held by a Special Court may appeal to the High Court.
Exclusion of interference of other courts.
Application of ordinary law.
(2) The State Government may direct a Public Prosecutor tp present an appeal to the High Court from an order of acquittal passed by a Special Court.
(3) An appeal under this section may lie on a matter of fact as well as on a matter of law.
, (4) The period of limitation for an appeal under subsection (1) shall be thirty days from the date of the sentence and for an appeal under sub-section (2) shall be thirty days from the date of the order of acquittal.
16. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Code, or of any other law for the time being in force, or of anything having the force of law by whatsoever authority made or done, there shall, save as provided by•this Act, be no appeal from any order or sentence of a Special Court and, save.as aforesaid and subject to the Constitution of India, no Court shall have authority to revise such order or sentence, or to transfer any case from a Special Court, or to make any order under section 491 of the Code, or have any jurisdiction of any kind in respect of any proceedings of a Special Court or in respect of any direction made under this Act.
17. The provisions of the Code or of any other law for the time being in force, in so far as they may he applicable and in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, shall apply to all matters connected with, arising from or consequent upon a trial by a Special Court constituted under this Act.
Special rule about fine.
The W est Ben-gal ,Special (Jour is Act, 1950. 5 (Sections 18, 19.)
West Ben.
Ord. III of 1949.
X of 1950.]
18. No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings whatsoever shall lie against any person for or on account of or in respect of any sentence passed or any act ordered or done by him in good faith whether in exercise of any jurisdiction or power conferred or purporting to have been conferred on him by or under this Act or in carrying out any sentence passed by a Special Court in exercise of any jurisdiction as aforesaid.
19. Any order, direction or appointment made, •any notification issued, any Special Court constituted, any proceedin: commenced. Rny action taken or anything whatsoever done in exercise of any power conferred by or under the West Bengal Special Courts Ordinance, 1949, shall, on the said Ordinance ceasing to operate, be deemed to have been made, issued, constituted, commenced, taken or done in exercise ,of the powers conferred by or under this Act as if this Act had commenced on the 17th day of August, 1949.
Indemnity.
Continuance of action taken under West Bengal.
Ordinance III of
1949.
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