(1) A Special Court may take cognizance of offences without the accused being committed to it for trial, and in trying accused persons shall follow the procedure prescribed by the Code for the trial of warrant cases by Magistrates:
Provided that for the purpose of sub-section (1) of section 356 of the Code, English shall be deemed to be the language of a Special Court and where under the provisions of that sub-section the evidence of witnesses is taken down in the presence and hearing and under the personal direction and superintendence of a Special Judge appointed under section 4 and not by such Special Judge himself, the provisions of sub-section (3) of section. 356 shall not apply.
(2) In matters not coming within the scope of sub-section (1),. the provisions, of- the Code, so far as they are not inconsistent with this Act, shall apply to the proceedings of a Special Court; and for the purposes of the said provisions a Special Court shall be deemed to be a Court of Session.
(3) A Special Court trying under this Act an offence may?, with a view to obtaining the evidence of any person supposed to have been directly or indirectly concerned in, or privy to, the offence, tender a pardon to such person. on condition of his making a full and true disclosure of the whole circumstances within his knowledge relative to the offence and to every other person concerned, whether as principal or abettor, in the commission thereof. Any par— don- so tendered shall, for the purposes of sections 339- and 339A of - the Code, be deemed to have been tendered under section 3a8 of the Code.