The PLANTATIONS LABOUR ACT, 1951

PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE

Section 39: Cognizance of offences.

No Court shall take cognizance of any offence under this Act except on a complaint made by any worker or an office bearer of a trade union of which such worker is a member or an inspector and no court inferior to that of a Metropolitan Magistrate or a Judicial Magistrate of the first class shall try any offence punishable under this Act.