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( I ) No Court shall take cognizance of any offence made punishable by a scheme or of any abetment thereof, except on a complaint in writing made by an Inspector or by a person specially authorised in this behalf by the Board or the State Government. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, an offence made punishable by a scheme or an abetment thereof shall be triable only by a Metropolitan Magistrate or a Judicial Magistrate of the first class. 2 of 1974. Application of the Workmen's Compensa- lion Act,