Section 33 — Enhanced penalty after previous conviction.

Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961

33. Enhanced penalty after previous conviction.—If any person who has been convicted of any 

offence punishable under this Act is again guilty of an offence involving a contravention of the same 

provision, he shall be punishable on a subsequent conviction with imprisonment which may extend to six 

months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both: 

Provided that for the purposes of this section no cognizance shall be taken of any conviction made 

more than two years before the commission of the offence which is being punished.

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