Section 21
Offences to be tried by Executive Magistrate.
The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013
About this Act
An Act to provide for the prohibition of employment as manual scavengers, rehabilitation of manual scavengers and their families, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(1) The State Government may confer, on an
Executive Magistrate, the powers of aJudicial Magistrate of the first class for the trial of offences under
this Act; and, on suchconferment of powers, the Executive Magistrate, on whom the powers are so
conferred, shallbe deemed, for the purposes of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), to be a
Judicial Magistrateof the first class.
(2) An offence under this Act may be tried summarily.
(2) An offence under this Act may be tried summarily.