The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006
73. Power of court to
try cases summarily. –
Notwithstanding
anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, all offences not
triable by a Special Court, shall be tried in a summary way by a Judicial
Magistrate of the first class 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 a 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 may have been
examined and proceed to hear or rehear the case in the manner provided by the
said Code.