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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Essential Commodities Act, 1955 Section 12

Special Provision Regarding Fine

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Essential Commodities Act, 1955 Section 12 is part of Essential Commodities Act, 1955 - Special Provision Regarding Fine. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

1 [2 [12. Special provision regarding fine

Notwithstanding anything contained in section 29 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), it shall be lawful for any Metropolitan Magistrate, or any Judicial Magistrate of the first class specially empowered by the State Government in this behalf, to pass a sentence of fine exceeding five thousand rupees on any person convicted of contravening any order made under section 3.]]

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1. Substituted by Act 30 of 1974, section 9 (w.r.e.f. 22-6-1974).

2. Section 12 was omitted by Act 18 of 1981 as amended by Act 34 of 1993 for a period of fifteen years which now stands restored after the expiry of fifteen years. See Appendix -- Section 10 of the Essential Commodities (Special Provisions) Act, 1981 (18 of 1981).

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Section Section 12 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (Special Provision Regarding Fine) is reproduced on this page as part of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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