Bonded Labor System (Abolition) Act, 1976
21. OFFENCES TO BE TRIED BY EXECUTIVE
MAGISTRATES. –
(1) The State Government may confer, on an
Executive Magistrate, the powers of a Judicial Magistrate of the first class or
of the second class for the trial of offences under this Act; and, on such
conferment of powers, the Executive Magistrate, on whom the powers are so
conferred, shall be deemed, for the purposes of the Code of Criminal Procedure,
1973 (2 of 1974), to be a Judicial Magistrate of the first class, or of the
second class, as the case may be.
(2) An offence under this Act may be tried
summarily by a Magistrate.