CrPC 480 — Practising pleader not to sit as Magistrate in certain Courts

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Statutory text

No pleader who practises in the Court of any Magistrate shall sit as a Magistrate in that Court or in any Court within the local jurisdiction of that Court.
STATE AMENDMENT Karnataka Insertion of new section 480A. —After section 480 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of
1974) the following Section shall be inserted, namely:—
“480A.  Other  powers  of  Magistrate.—Any  Judicial  Magistrate  or  Executive  Magistrate shall  be  entitled  to
attest,  verify  or  authenticate  any  document  brought  before  him  for  the  purpose  of  attestation,  verification  or
authentication, as the case may be, and to affix seals thereon, as may be prescribed by any law for the time being in force.”.
[Vide Karnataka Act 35 of 1984, s. 2]

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