Section 7 of the Mediation Boards Act, No. 72 of 1988 is hereby amended in subsection (1) of that section as follows:—
(1)
by the substitution in paragraph (a) of that subsection for the words “twenty five thousand rupees in value” of the words “two hundred and fifty thousand rupees in value;”;
(2)
by the substitution in paragraph (c) of that subsection for the words “Second Schedule to this
Act,” of the words “Second Schedule to this Act;
or”; and
(3)
by the insertion immediately after paragraph (c) of that subsection, of the following paragraph:—
“(d)
the offence under section 367 or 368B of the
Penal Code is committed by a person below the age of eighteen years, in respect of any property, the value of which does not exceed rupees five thousand,”.