(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 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.
2[(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.]
STATE AMENDMENT
Maharashtra
Insertion of section 14A in Act 2 of 1974.-after section 14 of the Code of
Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), in its application to the State of
Maharashtra (hereinafter referred to as "the said Code"), the following section
shall be inserted, namely:-
14A. Investing Judicial Magistrates with
jurisdiction in specified cases or local area.-The High Court may invest any
Judicial Magistrate with all or any of the powers conferred or conferrable by or
under this Code upon a Judicial Magistrate in respect to particular cases or to
a particular class or classes of cases or in regard to cases generally in any
local area consisting of all or any of the districts specified by it in this
behalf.
[Vide Maharashtra Act 23 of 1976, s. 2]
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1. Added by s. 5, ibid. (w.e.f.
18-12-1978).
2. Ins. by s. 5, ibid. (w.e.f. 18-12-1978).
Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC)
11 CrPC Courts of Judicial Magistrates
12 CrPC Chief Judicial Magistrate and Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, etc
13 CrPC Special Judicial Magistrates
14 CrPC Local jurisdiction of Judicial Magistrates
15 CrPC Subordination of Judicial Magistrates
16 CrPC Courts of Metropolitan Magistrates
17 CrPC Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate
18 CrPC Special Metropolitan Magistrates