Section 27 of The Coastal Shipping Act, 2025: Special provision regarding punishment.
The Coastal Shipping Act, 2025
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to regulation of coastal shipping, promote coasting trade and encourage domestic participation therein, to ensure that India is equipped with a coastal fleet, owned and operated by the citizens of India for its national security and commercial needs, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Notwithstanding anything contained in section 23 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, it shall be lawful for a Judicial Magistrate of the first class to pass any sentence provided under this Act on any person convicted of an offence under this Act.