special order, specify in this behalf.
13.
Special Judicial Magistrates.
13.
Special Judicial Magistrates. (1) The High Court may, if
requested by the Central or State Government so to do, confer upon any
person who holds or has held any post under the Government, all or any
of the powers conferred or conferrable by or under this Code on a
Judicial Magistrate 1*[of the first class or of the second class, in
respect to particular cases or to particular classes of cases, in any
local area, not being a metropolitan area] :
Provided that no such power shall be conferred on a person unless
he possesses such qualification or experience in relation to legal
affairs as the High Court may, by rules, specify.
(2)Such Magistrates shall be called Special Judicial Magistrates
and shall be appointed for such term, not exceeding one year at a
time, as the High Court may, by general or special order, direct.
2*
[(3)
The High Court may empower a Special
Judicial
Magistrate to exercise the powers of a Metropolitan Magistrate in
relation to any metropolitan area outside his local jurisdiction.]
--------------------------------------------------------------------1 Subs. by Act 45 of 1978, s. 4, for certain words (w.e.f. 18-121978).
2 Ins. by s. 4, ibid. (w.e.f. 18-12-1978).
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14.
Local jurisdiction of Judicial Magistrates.
14. Local jurisdiction of Judicial Magistrates. (1) Subject to
the control of the High Court, the Chief Judicial Magistrate may, from
time to time, define the local limits of the areas within which the
Magistrates appointed under section 11 or under section 13 may
exercise all or any of the powers with which they may respectively be
invested under this Code :
1*[Provided that the Court of a Special Judicial Magistrate may
hold its sitting at any place within the local area for which it is
established.]
(2)Except
as
otherwise
provided
by
such
definition,
the