Section 27
Magistrate’s power to impose enhanced penalties.
The Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972
About this Act
An Act to regulate the export trade in antiquities and art treasures, to provide for the prevention of smuggling of, and fraudulent dealings in, antiquities, to provide for the compulsory acquisition of antiquities and art treasures for preservation in public places and to provide for certain other matters connected therewith or incidental or ancillary thereto.
Notwithstanding anything contained in
section 32 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898), it shall be lawful for any Presidency
Magistrate or any Magistrate of the First Class to pass any sentence under this Act in excess of his power
under section 32 of the said Code.