Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
After section 13. the following section shall be inserted, namely "13A. (1) The High Court may place any Judicial Magistrate of the first or second class, in charge of a sub-division and relieve him of the charge as occasion requires. . (2; Such Judicial Magistrates shall be called Sub- divisional Judicial Magistrates. (3) The High Court may delegate its powers under this section to the Sessions Judge of the district where the appointment is to be made, subject to such conditions, if any, as it thinks fit.". The We Bengal Separation of Judicial and 7 Executive 'Inflations Act, 1968. .1) 807 3 • 8, For section 14, the following section shall be substi- tuted, namely : — "14. (1) The State Government may confer upon any person who possesses such qualifications as may be specified, in this behalf by the State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, all or any of the powers conferred or conferrable by or under this Code, on an Executive Magistrate of the first, second or third class for a particular purpose or for particular purposes, in any local area, outside the Presidency-town. :9) Such Magistrates shall be called Special Executive Magistrates and shall be appointed for such term as the State Government may, by general or special order, direct. (3) The State Government may delegate, with such limitation as it thinks fit, to any officer under its control the powers conferred by sub-section (1). (4) The State Government may, in consultation with the High. Court, confer upon any person who holds or has held any judicial post under the Union or a State, or possesses such other qualifications, as may, in consultation with the High Court, be specified in this behalf by the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette, all or any of the powers conferred or conferrable by or under this Code, on a Judicial Magistrate of the first, second or third class in regard to a particular case or class of cases, or in regard to cases generally, in any local area outside the Presidency-town. (5) Such Magistrates shall be called Special Judicial Magistrates and shall be appointed for such term as the State Government may, in consultation with the High Court, by general or special order, direct (61 No powers- shall be conferred under this section on any police-officer below the grade of Assistant District Superintendent, and no powers shall be conferred on a police-officer except so far as may be necessary for preserving the peace, preventing crime and detecting, apprehending and detain- ing offenders in order to their being brought before an ' appropriate Magistrate and for the performance by the officer of any other duties imposed upon him by any law - for the time being in force." Special Executive and Judicial Magis- trates. 8 The West Bengal Separation of Judicial and Executive Kunotions Act, 1968. [President's Aet