Section 5Procedure

s. 5

5. Procedure (1) No Court inferior to that of a Magistrate of the first class shall try an offence under this Ordinance. (2) A Court trying an offence under this Ordinance may make orders for the detention of the vessel till such time as a pilot is taken on board. (3) No prosecution for an offence punishable under this Ordinance shall be instituted except on a complaint made in writing by the Chairman or any person authorised by the Chairman in this behalf. (4) An offence under this Ordinance may be tried in any place in which the offender may be found or which the Government, by notification in the official Gazette, appoints in this behalf or in any other place in which the offender might be tried under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898.