Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Cognizance of offences. — (1) No Court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable under this Act or of the abetment of any such offence, save on complaint made by or under the authority of the appropriate Government. The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (2) No Court inferior to that of 1 [a Metropolitan Magistrate or a Judicial Magistrate of the first class] shall try any offence punishable under this Act. Case Law No authority to private individuals Under section 34 of the Act the complaint for an offence thereunder, except section 30, cannot he filed by a private individual under the authority of the appropriate Government; Tube Enterprises Ltd. v. Lt. Governor of Delhi, 1994 LLR 169 (Del) (DB).