[14A. Appointnment of Special Migistrates.(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Code or
any other law for the time being in force or any judgement of any court including superior courts, the
Provincial Government may appoint Special Magistrates with the powers of a Magistrate First Class
exclusively for the trial of offences relating to price control under any Provincial law or Federal law for the
time being in force.
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(2) The Provincial Government or any officer authorized by the Provincial Governemnt in this behalf
may, from time to time, define local areas within which such Magistrates may exercise all or any of the
powers with which they may respectively be invested under any Provincial law or Federal law relating to
price control.]
15. Benches of Magistrates.(1) The 2[Provincial Government] may direct any two or more
3[Judicial Magistrates] in any place 4* * * to sit together as a Bench, and may by order invest such Bench
with any of the powers conferred or conferrable by or under this Code on a Magistrate of the first, second or
third class, and direct it to exercise such powers in such cases, or, such classes of cases only, and within such
local limits, as the 2[Provincial Government] thinks fit.
(2) Powers exercisable by Bench in absence of special direction. Except as otherwise provided by
any order under this section, every such Bench shall have the powers conferred by this Code on a
Magistrate of the highest class to which any one of its members, who is present taking part in the
proceedings as a member of the Bench, belongs, and as far as practicable shall, for the purposes of this
Code, be deemed to be a Magistrate of such class.
16. Power to frame rules for guidance of 5[Magistrates and] Benches. The 6[Provincial Government]
may 7[:], from time to time, make rules8 consistent with this Code for the guidance of Magistrates 5[all
Magistrates and] Benches in any district respecting the following subjects:__
(a) the classes of cases to be tried;
(b) the times and places of sitting;
(c) the constitution of the Bench for conducting trials;
(d) the mode of settling differences of opinion which may arise between the Magistrates in session
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(e) 5[The mode and manner of conduting raids and trial on the spot.]
1 Ins. by Act III of 2006, s. 21.
2 Subs. by A.O., 1937, for “L.G.”.
3 Subs. by ord. 12 of 1972, s. 2 and Sch.
4 The words “outside the presidencytowns” omitted by A.O., 1949, Sch.
5 Ins., subs. and added by Act III of 2006, s .21.
6 Subs. by A.O., 1937, for “L.G.”.
7 Omitted & Subs. by ord. 12 of 1972, s.2 & Sch.
8 For rules, see the different local Rules and Orders.
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