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- The State Government may 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 qualifications as may, Government by notification in the official Gazette] all or any of the powers conferred or conferable by or under this Code on a Magistrate of the first, second or third class in respect to particular cases or to a particular class or particular classes of cases, or in regard to cases generally in any local area outside the presidency towns.
(2) Such Magistrates shall be called Special 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 limitations as it thinks fit, to any officer under its control the powers conferred by sub-section (1).
(4) 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 detaining offenders in order to their being brought before a Magistrate, and for the performance by the officer of any other duties imposed upon him by any law for the time being in force. ---