# 67 Power to try offences summarily
The District Magistrate or any Magistrate of the first class specially empowered in this behalf by the 1[State Government] may try summarily, under theCode of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898), any forest-offence punishable with imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or fine not exceeding five hundred rupees, or both.
STATE AMENDMENT
Maharashtra
Amendment of section 67 of Act 16 of 1927.--In section 67 of the principal Act, for the words "two thousand rupees" the words "five thousand rupees" shall be substituted.
[Vide Maharashtra Act 21 of 2015, s. 17].
STATE AMENDMENT
Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh (UTs).--
Section 67.--For the words "not exceeding six months, or fine not exceeding five hundred rupees", substitute the words "not exceeding two years or with fine not exceeding twenty five thousand rupees".
[Vide the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, notification No. S.O. 1123(E) dated (18-3-2020) and Vide Union Territory of Ladakh Reorganisation (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, notification No. S.O.3774(E), dated (23-10-2020).]
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1. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Provincial Government".
