Non-cognizable offences: admission and security provisions under the Central Excise Act clarified to apply where offence is non-cognizable.

Amendment confines the proviso to section 21 of the Central Excise Act so that the magistrate's power to admit the accused in clause (a) applies only where the offence is non-cognizable, and clause (b) is altered to specify that the requirement to proceed against the accused applies in respect of offences which are non-cognizable.

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