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SECTION 26: ADJUDICATION OF PENALTIES Except as otherwise herein provided, all foes, penalties and confiscations prescribed by this Act shall be adjudged by the Magistrate on the information of the Deputy Agent or 43 [district opium officer] in districts in which the poppy is cultivated on account of 44 [the Central Government], and in other districts on the information of the Collector or officer in charge of the abkari mahal: Provided that no information of an offence against this Act shall be admitted unless it be preferred within the period of one year after the commission of the offence to which the information refers.