Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
[Rules for levy of duty on opium, etc]. Deleted by Bom, 22 of 1960. s. 74. 4[114.(1) All duties, taxes, fi nes (except fi nes imposed by a Court ) and fees levi- able under any of the provisions of this Act or in respect of any licence, permit, pass or authorization granted under it, and the cost of the supervising staff appointed under section 58A, may be recovered from any person liable to pay the same or from his surety, if any, as if they were arrears of land revenue. (2) When any person, in compliance with any rule, regulation or order made under this Act, gives a bond ( other than a bond under section 91 or 93 ) for the performance of an act, or for his abstention from any act, such performance or abstention shall be deemed to be a public duty within the meaning of section 74 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872; and upon breach of the conditions of such bond by him, the whole sum named therein as the amount to be paid in case of such breach may be recovered from him or from his surety ( if any ) as if it were an arrear of land revenue ]. CHAPTER IX. POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS AND PROCEDURE. 5[115. 6[(1)] Notwithstanding anything contained in section 32 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, it shall be lawfully for 7 *** any magistrate of the First Class to pass any sentences authorized by this Act 8[except any sentence under section 65A] in excess of his powers under section 32 of the said Code, provided that the fi ne shall not exceed three thousand rupees.] 9[(2)] The provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure,1973 shall apply for trials of the offences under section 65A.] 10[115A. Notwithstanding anything contained in Code of Criminal Procedure, of 1898, an offence of consumption of any intoxicant or hemp specifi ed in clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 66, may be tried by a Magistrate having jurisdication either at the place in which the offence was actually committed or at any place in the State in which the offender may be found.]