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The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898

Section 36Ordinary powers of Magistrates

In forcePart II CONSTITUTION AND POWERS OF CRIMINAL COURTS AND OFFICESChapter III POWERS OF COURTS

Part II CONSTITUTION AND POWERS OF CRIMINAL COURTS AND OFFICES

Chapter III POWERS OF COURTS

C.-Ordinary and Additional Powers

s. 36

36. Ordinary powers of Magistrates All [Judicial and Executive Magistrate] have the powers hereinafter respectively conferred upon them and specified in the third schedule. Such powers are called their "ordinary powers".

  1. 64. The words “Judicial and Executive Magistrate” were substituted for the words and comma “District Magistrates, Sub-divisonal Magistrate and Magistrates of the first, second and third classes” by section 17 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2009 (Act No. XXXII of 2009) (with effect from 1st November, 2007).

End of s. 36. Not in the index for this Act: Schedule (sub).

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