Local Jurisdiction of Judicial Magistrates
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Summary
Chief Judicial Magistrate, under High Court control, may fix the local limits where Judicial Magistrates can exercise any or all of their powers. Unless changed, a Magistrate’s powers extend throughout the district. If a Magistrate’s local limits run beyond the district or metropolitan area where they normally sit, references in this Code to Court of Session, Chief Judicial Magistrate or Chief Metropolitan Magistrate are to be read as referring to the corresponding authority for the district or metro of the Magistrate's ordinary court.
Example
Priya is a Judicial Magistrate who normally sits in District A, but the Chief Judicial Magistrate allows her to exercise powers in a neighbouring part of District B. If a Code provision refers to the Chief Judicial Magistrate for matters in that neighbouring area, it will be read as referring to the Chief Judicial Magistrate exercising jurisdiction in District A where Priya ordinarily holds court.
Bare Act
Enacted text(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:
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 jurisdiction and powers of every such Magistrate shall extend throughout the district.
(3) Where the local jurisdiction of a Magistrate, appointed under section 11 or section 13 or section 18, extends to an area beyond the district, or the metropolitan area, as the case may be, in which he ordinarily holds Court, any reference in this Code to the Court of Session, Chief Judicial Magistrate or the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate shall, in relation to such Magistrate, throughout the area within his local jurisdiction, be construed, unless the context otherwise requires, as a reference to the Court of Session, Chief Judicial Magistrate, or Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, as the case may be, exercising jurisdiction in relation to the said district or metropolitan area.
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