Section 21
Offences to be tried by Executive Magistrates.
The Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976
About this Act
An Act to provide for the abolition of bonded labour system with a view to preventing the economic and physical exploitation of the weaker sections of the people and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(1) The State Government may confer, on
an Executive Magistrate, the powers of a Judicial Magistrate of the first class or of the second class
for the trial of offences under this Act; and, on such conferment of powers, the Executive Magistate,
on whom the powers are so conferred, shall be deemed, for the purposes of the Code of Criminal
Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), to be a Judicial Magistrate of the first class, or of the second class, as the
case may be.
(2) An offence under this Act may be tried summarily by a Magistrate.
(2) An offence under this Act may be tried summarily by a Magistrate.