State Act
Section 51B. Offences to be tried by Executive Magistrate
The Chhattisgarh SHOPS and ESTABLISHMENTS ACT, 1958
This Act was repealed on 13 February 2025 by the Chhattisgarh Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2017 (Chhattisgarh Act 21 of 2018), s.30(1), in force from 13 February 2025; it may still apply to matters that began before then.
51B. Offences to be tried by Executive Magistrate -- Save as provided in section 47, the State Government may confer on any Executive Magistrate the power of a Judicial Magistrate of the First Class or the Second Class for the trial of offences under Act, and on such conferment of powers the Executive Magistrate, on whom powers are so conferred shall be deemed for the purposes of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (No. 2 of 1974), to be a Judicial Magistrate of the first Class or the Second Class, as the case may be.