BNSS · Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
Section 526 — Practising advocate not to sit as Magistrate in certain Courts.
Replaces CrPC Section 480.
No advocate who practices 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.
Nearby sections
- 523 Power of High Court to make rules.
- 524 Power to alter functions allocated to Executive Magistrate in certain cases.
- 525 Cases in which Judge or Magistrate is personally interested.
- 527 Public servant concerned in sale not to purchase or bid for property.
- 528 Saving of inherent powers of High Court.
- 529 Duty of High Court to exercise continuous superintendence over Courts.
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