Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Cognizance of offences against Act. - . No person shall be tried for any offence against the proviJolions of this. Act, or of any rule, or bye-laws made under it, unless complaint is made within three months of the commission of the offence by the Police, or the lo.cal authority or the Health Officer, or by a person expressly authorised in this' behalf by the' local authority, or the "Government: Provided that nothing contained in this section shall affect the provisions of the Code of Criminal . Procedure, 1973 (Act 2 of 1974), in regard to the power of certain Magistrates to take cognizance of offences upon . information received or upon their own knowledge or suspicion. . -./"