Act Number: 41

Act Name: The Essential Services Maintenance (Assam) Act, 1980

Year: 1980

Enactment Date: 1980-07-19

Long Title: An Act to provide for the maintenance of certain essential services and the normal life of the community in Assam.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 9: Offences to be tried summarily.
    Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), all offences under this Act shall be tried in a summary way by a Judicial Magistrate of the first class specially empowered in this behalf by the 1[State Government] and the provisions of Sections 262 to 265 (both inclusive) of the said Code shall, as far as may be, apply to such trial:
     Provided that in a case of conviction for any offence in a summary trial under this section, it shall be lawful for the Magistrate to pass a sentence of imprisonment for any term for which such offence is punishable under this Act.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 40 of 1981, s. 13, for "appropriate Government" (w.e.f. 23-9-1981).
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