PREVENTION OF SMUGGLING - POWERS OF SEARCH, SEIZURE AND ARREST-ADJUDICATION OF OFFENCES
Special powers for Magistrates
185. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, and subject to the other provisions of this Act, any Magistrate of the first class specially empowered by the Government in this behalf may pass a sentence of imprisonment for a term exceeding 1[five years] and of fine exceeding 2[ten thousand Taka] for an offence under this Act.
1
The words “five years” were substituted for the words “three years” by section 7 of the Finance Ordinance, 1986 (Ordinance No. XLV of 1986)
2
The words “ten thousand Taka” were substituted for the words “Taka five thousand” by section 7 of the Finance Ordinance, 1986 (Ordinance No. XLV of 1986)
