State Act

The Gujarat Land Revenue Code, 1879

6[215. 7[(1)] It shall be lawful for the 8[ 9[State] Government], in making any rule under section 214, to prescribe that any person committing a breach of the same shall on conviction by a Magistrate be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or with fine not exceeding five hundred rupees, or with both, in addition to any other consequences that would ensue from such breach. 10[(2) (a) Nothing in section 214 shall authorise the State Government to make retrospectively a rule prescribing a penalty referred to in sub-section (1). (b) Notwithstanding the retrospective operation of any rule made under section 214, nothing or no action constituting breach of such rule, done or taken by a person before such rule is so made shall render such persons liable to penalty prescribed under sub-section (1). ]]