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 provisions 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 local 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.