law: The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 
  74. Special courts
  
  and Public Prosecutor. - 
  1.     
  
    Notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in this Act or in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the
  
  Central Government or the State Government in their respective jurisdictions
  
  may, if consider expedient and necessary in the public interest, for the
  
  purposes of the trial of offences relating to grievous injury or death of the
  
  consumer for which punishment of imprisonment for more than three years has
  
  been prescribed under this Act, constitute, by notification in the Official
  
  Gazette, as many Special Courts with the concurrence of the Chief Justice of
  
  the High Court as may be necessary for such area or areas and for exercising
  
  such jurisdiction, as may be specified in the notification.
  2.     
  
    A
  
  Special Court may, on its own motion, or on an application made by the Public
  
  Prosecutor and if it considers it expedient or desirable so to do, sit for any
  
  of its proceedings at any place other than its ordinary place of sitting.
  3.     
  
    The
  
  trial under this Act of any offence by a Special Court shall have precedence
  
  over the trial of any other case against the accused in any other court (not
  
  being a Special Court) and shall be concluded in preference to the trial of
  
  such other case and accordingly the trial of such other case shall remain in
  
  abeyance.
  4.     
  
  
  
    For
  
  every Special Court, the Central Government or the State Government, as the
  
  case may be, shall appoint a person to be the Public Prosecutor and may appoint
  
  more than one person to be the Additional Public Prosecutors: Provided that the
  
  Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be, may also
  
  appoint for any case or class or group of cases, a Special Public Prosecutor.
  5.     
  
    A
  
  person shall not be qualified to be appointed as a Public Prosecutor or an
  
  Additional Public Prosecutor or a Special Public Prosecutor under this section
  
  unless he has been in practice as an Advocate for not less than seven years or
  
  has held any post, for a period of not less than seven years, under the Union
  
  or a State, requiring special knowledge of law.