The Private Forests Ordinance, 1959 (East Pakistan Ordinance)
(
Ordinance
NO. XXXIV OF 1959
)
[ 11th May, 1959 ]
Chapter IV
PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE
Power to try offences summarily
49. The District Magistrate or any Magistrate of the first class specially empowered in this behalf by the Government may try summarily, under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, any forest-offence punishable with imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or with fine not exceeding five hundred taka, or with both.
