Act Number: 37

Act Name: The Personal Injuries (Compensation Insurance) Act, 1963

Year: 1963

Enactment Date: 1963-10-08

Long Title: An Act to impose on employers a liability to pay compensation to workmen sustaining personal injuries and to provide for the insurance of employers against such liability.

Ministry: Ministry of Labour and Employment

Department:

Section 19: Power of magistrate to impose any sentence.
    Where any offence against this Act is tried by a Presidency Magistrate or a magistrate of the first class, then, notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898), the magistrate trying the offence may pass any sentence authorised by this Act.
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