Section 74
Enhanced penalty after previous conviction.
About this Act
An Act to amend and consolidate the law relating to the regulation of labour and safety in mines.
1[74. Enhanced penalty after previous conviction.--If any person who has been convicted for an
offence punishable under any of the foregoing provisions (other than sections 72B and 72C) is again
convicted for an offence committed within two years of the previous conviction and involving a
contravention of the same provision, he shall be punishable for each subsequent conviction with
double the punishment to which he would have been liable for the first contravention of such
provision.]
Notes
1. Subs. by s. 40, ibid., for sections 73 and 74 (w.e.f. 16-1-1960).