Act Number: 104

Act Name: The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956

Year: 1956

Enactment Date: 1956-12-30

Long Title: An Act to provide in pursuance of the International Convention signed at New York on the 9th day of May, 1950, for the Prevention of Immoral Traffic.

Ministry: Ministry of Women and Child Development

Department:

Section 22AA: Power of Central Government to establish special courts.
    1[22AA. Power of Central Government to establish special courts.--(1) If the Central Government is satisfied that it is necessary for the purpose of providing for speedy trial of offences under this Act and committed in more than one State, it may, by notification in the Official Gazette and after consultation with the High Court concerned, establish one or more courts of Judicial Magistrates of the first class or Metropolitan Magistrates for the trial of such offences.
     (2) The provisions of section 22A, shall, so far as may be, apply to the courts established under subsection (1) as they apply to courts established under that section.]
Notes:
1. Ins. by Act 44 of 1986, s. 22 (w.e.f. 26-1-1987).
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