Section 604: Power to appoint officers to try certain offences, etc

604. Power to appoint officers to try certain offences, etc.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898), or any other law for the time being in force, the Federal Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint one or more officers to try, within such local areas as may be specified therein, an offence of any breach of, or failure to comply with, any rule for the safety of ship or of crew, passengers, goods, mails and other things carried thereon, or for preventing ships from endangering other ships, persons or property ; and any such officer trying an offence shall, for the purpose of the trial, be deemed to be a Magistrate of the first class appointed under the Code and any proceedings before, and any sentence passed by him shall have effect accordingly. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898), an officer appointed under sub-section (1) may try an offence in a summary way in accordance with the procedure laid down for summary trial in the said Code. (3) Where an officer has been appointed under sub-section (1) to try an offence specified therein, no court other than such officer shall try such offence.

Effective date: 2001-01-01

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