Section 4: Jurisdiction of Special Court — Traffic Offences (Special Courts) Ordinance, 1981

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4. Jurisdiction of Special Court.___(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898), or the Provincial Motor Vehicles Ordinance, 1965 (W.P Ordinance No. XIX of 1965), the traffic offences shall be triable exclusively by a Special Court. (2) If in the course of a trial before the Special Court, the Court is of opinion that any of the offences which the accused is alleged to have committed is not a traffic offence, the Court shall record such opinion and try the accused only for such offence, if any, as is a traffic offence.

Effective date: 1981-01-01

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