Section 8: Cognizance of offences and procedure

8. Cognizance of offences and procedure.___ (1) Save as provided in sub-section (2) of section 7, no Court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable under this Ordinance except on a complaint in writing made by a person authorised to arrest under sub-section (1) of that section or by the officer in charge of the Police-Station in whose jurisdiction the offence is alleged to have been committed. (2) Any Magistrate empowered for the time being to try in a summary way the offence specified in sub-section (1) of section 260 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898), may try any offence punishable under this Ordinance in accordance with the provisions contained in sections 262 to 265 of the said Code. (3) The Officer in charge of the police-station to which a person arrested is forwarded under sub-section (3) of section 7 shall make a complaint to a Magistrate within twenty-four hours of the time on which such person is brought to the Police Station. 1Subs. and shall be deemed always to have been so subs. by Ordinance No. XXIX of 1981, s. 2. (4) The trial of an offence publishable under this Ordinance shall be taken up on a priority basis and shall be concluded as expeditiously as may be administratively possible.

Effective date: 1981-01-01

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