CHAPTER XLV
OF IRREGULAR PROCEEDINGS
529. Irregularities which do not vitiate proceedings. If any Magistrate not empowered by law to do
any of the following things, namely :
(a) to issue a search warrant under Section 98;
(b) to order, under Section 155, the police to investigate an offence;
(c) to hold an inquest under Section 176;
(d) to issue process, under Section 186, for the apprehension of a person within the local limits of his
jurisdiction who has committed an offence outside such limits;
(e) to take cognizance of an offence under Section 190. subsection (1), clause (a) or clause (b) ;
(f) to transfer a case under Section 192;
(g) to tender a pardon under Section 337 or Section 338;
(h) to sell property under Section 524 or Section 525; or
(i) to withdraw a case and try it himself under Section 528;
erroneously in good faith does that thing, his proceedings shall not be set aside merely on the
ground of his not being so empowered.
530. Irregularities which vitiate proceedings. If any Magistrate, not being empowered by law in this
behalf, does any of the following things, namely :
(a) attaches and sells property under Section 88;
(b) issues a searchwarrant for a letter, parcel or other thing in the Post Office, or a telegram in the
Telegraph Department;
(c) demands security to keep the peace;
(d) demands security for good behaviour;
(e) discharges a person lawfully bound to be of good behaviour;
(f) cancels a bond to keep the peace;
(g) makes an order under Section 133 as to a local nuisance;
(h) prohibits, under Section 143, the repetition or continuance of a public nuisance;
(i) issues an order under Section 144;
(j) makes an order under Chapter XII;
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