Section 20
Magistrate’s power to impose enhanced penalties.
The Maritime Zones of India (Regulation of Fishing by Foreign Vessels) Act, 1981
About this Act
An Act to provide for the regulation of fishing by foreign vessels in certain maritime zones of India and for matters connected therewith.
Notwithstanding anything contained
in section 29 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), it shall be lawful for any Metropolitan
Magistrate or any Judicial Magistrate of the first class specially empowered by the State Government in
this behalf to pass any sentence authorised by this Act.