Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940
36A.
Certain offences to be tried summarily
Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal
Procedure, 1973, all offences under this Act, punishable with imprisonment for
a term not exceeding three years, other than an offence under clause (b) of
sub-section (1) of section 33-I, shall be tried in a summary way by a Judicial
Magistrate of the first class specially empowered in this behalf by the State
Government or by a Metropolitan Magistrate and the provisions of sections 262
to 265 (both inclusive) of the said Code shall, as far as may be, apply to such
trial :
Provided that, in the case of any conviction in a
summary trial under this section, it shall be lawful for the Magistrate to pass
a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year :
Provided further that when at the commencement of, or
in the course of, a summary trial under this section it appears to the
Magistrate that the nature of the case is such that a sentence of imprisonment
for a term exceeding one year may have to be passed or that it is, for any
other reason, undesirable to try the case summarily, the Magistrate shall,
after hearing the parties, record an order to that effect and thereafter recall
any witness who has been examined and proceed to hear or rehear the case in the
manner provided by the said Code.]