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The District Magistrate or any Magistrate of the first class specially empowered in this behalf by the1[ State Government ] may try summarily, under the2Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, any forest-offence punishable with imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or fine not exceeding five hundred rupees, or both.
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1. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for "Provincial Government".
2. See Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).