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The Code of Criminal Procedure Schedule III


SCHEDULE III
(See section 36)
ORDINARY POWERS OF MAGISTRATES
I. Ordinary Powers of a Magistrate of the Third Class
(1)
Power to arrest or direct the arrest of, and to commit to custody, a person committing an offence in his presence, section 64.
(2)
Power to arrest, or direct the arrest in his persence of, an offender section 65.
(3)
Power to endorse a warrant, or to order the removal of an accused person arrested under a warrant, sections 83, 84, and 86.
(4)
Power to issue proclamations in eases judicially before him, section 87.
(5)
Power to attach and sell property and to dispose of claims to attached property in cases judicially before him, section 88.
(6)
Power to restore attached property, section89.
(7)
Power to require search to be made for letters and telegrams, section 95.
(8)
Power to issue search - warrant, section 96.
(9)
Power to endorse a search - warrant order delivery of thing found, section 99.
(10)
Power to command unlawful assembly to disperse, section 127.
(11)
Power to use civil force to disperse unlawful assembly, section 128.
(12)
Power to require military force to be used to disperse unlawful assembly section 130.
(13)
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(14)
Power to authorize detention, not being detention in the custody of the police of a person during a police investigation, section 167.
(14a)
Power to postpone issue of process and inquire into case himself section 202.
(15)
Power to deatin an offender fund in Court, section 351.
(16)
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(17)
Power to apply to District Magistrate to issue commission for examination of witness, section 506.
(18)
Power to recover forfeited bond for appearance before Magistrate's Court, section 514, and to require fresh security, section 514 A.
(18a)
Power to make order as to custody and disposal of property pending inquiry or trial, section 516 A.
(19)
Power to make order as to disposal of property, section 527.
(20)
Power to sell property of a suspected character, section 525.
(21)
Power to require affidavit in support of application, section 539 A.
(22)
Power to make local inspection, section 539 B.
II, - Ordinary Powers of a Magistrate of the Second Class.
(1)
The ordinary power of a Magistrate of the third class.
(2)
Power to order the police to invetigate an offence in cases in which the Magistrate has jurisdiction to try or commit for trial, section 155.
(3)
Power to postpone issue of process and to inquier into a case or direct investigation section 202.
III, - Ordinary Powers of a Magistrate of the First Class.
(1)
The ordinary powers of a Magistrate of the second class.
(2)
Power to issue search-warrant otherwise than in cours of an inquiry, section 98.
(3)
Power to issue search-warrant for discovery of persons wrongfully confined, section 100.
(4)
Power to require security to keep peace, section 107.
(5)
Power to require security for good behaviour, section 109.
(6)
Power to discharge sureties, section 126.
(6a)
Power to make orders as to local nuisances, section 133.
(7)
Power to make orders, etc., in possession cases, sections 145, 146 and 147.
(7a)
Power to record statements and confessions during a police investigatjion, section 164.
(7aa)
Power to authrized detention of a person in the custody of the police during a police investigation, section 167.
(7b)
Power to hold inquests, section 174.
(8)
Power to commit for trial, section 206.
(9)
Power to stop preceedings when no complaint, section 149.
(9a)
Power to tender pardon to accomplice during inquiry into case by himself, section 337.
(10)
Power to make orders of maintenance, sections 488 and 489.
(11)
Power to take evidence on commission, section 503.
(12)
Power to recover penalty on forfeited bond, section 514.
(12a)
Power to require fresh security, section 514 A.
(12b)
Power to re-call case made over by him to another Magistrate, section 528 (4).
(13)
Power to make order as to first offenders, section 562.
(14)
Power to order released convicts to notify residence, section 565.
IV, - Ordinary Powers of a Sub-divisional Magistrate appointed under section 13.
(1)
The ordinary powers of a Magistrate of the first class.
(2)
Power to direct warrants to land holders, section 78.
(3)
Power to require security for good behaviour, section 110.
(4)
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(5)
Power to make orders prohibiting repetitions of nuisances, section 143.
(6)
Power to make orders under section 144.
(7)
Power to depute subordinate Magistrate to make local inquiry, section 148.
(8)
Power to order police investigation into cognizable case, section 156.
(9)
Power to receive report of police - office and pass order, section 173
(10)
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(11)
Power to issue process for person within local jurisdiction who has committed an ofence outside the local jurisdiction, section 186.
(12)
Power to entertain complaints, section 190.
(13)
Power to receive police reports, section 190.
(14)
Power to entertain cases without complaint, section 190.
(15)
Power to transfer cases to a subordinate Magistraate, sectjion 192.
(16)
Power to pass sentence on proceedings recorded by a subordinate Magistrate, section 349.
(17)
Power to forward record of inferior court to District Magistrate, section 435(2).
(18)
Power to sell property alleged or suspected to have been stolen, etc., section, 524.
(19)
Power to withdraw cases other than appeals, and to try or refer them for trial, section 528.

V. Ordinary Power sof a District Magistrate
(1)
The ordinary powers of a Sub-divisional Magistrate.
(2)
Power to require delivery of letters, telegrams, etc., section 95.
(3)
Power to issue search-warrants for documents in custody of postal or telegraph authority, section 96.
(4)
Power to requier security for good behaviour in case of sedition, section 108.
(5)
Power to discharge persons bound to keep the peace or to be of good behaviour, section 124.
(6)
Power to cancel bound for keeping the peace, section 125.
(6a)
Power to order preliminary investigation by police-officer not below the rank of Inspetor in certain cases, section 196B.
(7)
Power to try summarily, section 260.
(7a)
Power to tender pardon to accomplice at any stage of a case, section 337.
(8)
Power to quash conviction in certain cases, section 350.
(9)
Power to hear appeals from orders requiring security for keeping the peace or good behaviour, section 406.
(9a)
Power to hear appeals from orders of Magistrates refusing to accept or rejecting sureties, section 406A.
(10)
Power to hear or refer appeals from convictions by Magistratesof the second and third classes, section 407.
(11)
Power to call for records, section 435.
(12)
Power to order inquiry into complaint dismissed or case of accused discharged, section 436.
(13)
Power to order commitment, section 437.
(14)
Power to report case to High Court, section 438.
(15)
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(17)
Power to appoint person to be public prosecutor in particular case, section 492 (2).
(18)
Power to issue commission for examination of witness, section 503, 506.
(19)
Power to hear appeals from or revise orders passed under sections 514, 515.
(20)
Power to compel restoration or abducted female, section 552.