Section 9E of The Central Excise Act, 1944 View Chapter 2

Application of Section 562 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, and of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958.


   1[9E.  Application of Section 562 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, and of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958.-- (1)  Nothing contained in Section 562 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898)2 , or in the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 (20 of 1958), shall apply to a person convicted of an offence under this Act unless that person is under eighteen years of age.

   (2)  The provisions of sub-section (1) shall have effect notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (3) of Section 9.]

1Ins. by Act 36 of 1973, s. 21.

2Now the relevant provisions of the CRPC, 1973 (2 of 1974).