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Jurisdiction to try _offences.-Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898), the [State]* Government may invest any District Magistrate, Subdivisional Magistrate or Magistrate of the first class with power to try as a Magistrate all, or any specified, offences arising in his jurisdiction under section 5, [section 6,]t section 7, section 9, section 10 or section 18, and every Court of a Magistrate so empowered may pass any sentence authorised by the aforesaid sections respectively.