9. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 37, and shall have effect as section 37A, of the principal Act: -
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| | (1) Any offence under this Act committed by reason of a contravention of any of the provisions of Part IV of tills Act. or of any regulation, made under this Act in respect of any matter for which such regulation is authorized to be made by that Part, shall,-
| | | (a) if there is a Rural Court having jurisdiction over the place at which such offence was committed, be triable by that Court ; or |
| (b) if there is no Rural Court, be summarily triable by the Magistrate's Court having jurisdiction over the place at which such offence was committed. |
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| | (2) Any Rural Court trying an offence under this Act shall be deemed to have power to inflict the full penalty provided for that offence notwithstanding any limitation of its ordinary powers of jurisdiction .". | | |
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