Tenth Chapter General provisions 39. Offences to be cognizable and non-bail able- (1) All offences under this Act shall be cognizable. (2) All offences under this Act shall be non-bailable. 40. Inevitability of prior approval regarding investigation and trial.(1) If any offence is committed under this Act, the concerned police officer shall immediately, after notifying the District Magistrate, file a case and start investigation. (2) No court shall take cognizance of any offence under this Act without the prior sanction of the Government. 41. Transfer of cases to and from Special Tribunal.- The Government may, at any stage of trial before conclusion of evidence, transfer any case or cases involving any offence under this Act from a Court of Sessions to a Special Tribunal or from a Special Tribunal to a Court of Sessions on reasonable grounds. 42. Power to amend the Schedule. - The Government may, by an order notified in the official Gazette, amend the Schedule of this Act. 43. Power to make rules.- For the purposes of this Act, the Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, make rules. 44. Original Text and English Text.- The original Text of this Act shall be in Bangla, and there shall be an authentic text of an authorized translation in English of this Act: Provided that in the event of conflict between the Bangla and the English text, the Bangla text shall prevail. 45. Repeal and savings.– (1) The Anti-Terrorism Ordinance, 2008 (Ordinance No. 28 of 2008) is hereby repealed. (2) Notwithstanding such repeal, all acts done or actions taken under the repealed Ordinance shall be deemed to have been done or taken under this Act. Ashfaq Hamid Secretary Schedule-1 [see section-2(3)(A))] (a) Convention for the suppression of unlawful seizure of Aircraft done at the Hague on 16th December, 1970; (b) Convention for the suppression of unlawful Acts against the safety of Civil aviation, done at Montreal on 23rd September, 1971; (c) Convention on the prevention and punishment of Crimes against internationally protected person, including diplomatic agents, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 14 th December,1973; (d) International convention against the taking of hostages adopted by the general assembly of the United on 17th December, 1979; (e) Convention on the physical protection of nuclear material, adopted at Vienna on 3th March, 1980; (f) Protocol for the suppression of unlawful Acts of violence at Airports serving International civil aviation, supplementary to the convention for the suppression of unlawful Acts against the safety of civil aviation, done at Montreal on 24 February, 1988; (g) Convention for the suppression of unlawful Acts against the safety of maritime navigation, done at Rome on 10 March, 1988; (h) Protocol for the suppression of unlawful Acts against the safety of fixed platforms located on the continental shelf, done at Rome on 10 March, 1988. (i) International convention for the suppression of terrorist Bombings, adopted by the general assembly of the United Nations on 15th December, 1997. Anti Terrorism Act 2009.doc/- 13 -