Offences to be tried by Executive Magistrates

The Government may confer, on an Executive Magistrate, the powers of a Judicial Magistrate of first class or of the Second Class for the trial of offences under this Act; and on such conferment of powers, the Executive Magistrate, on whom the powers are so conferred, shall be deemed for the purposes of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 to be a Judicial Magistrate of the first class, or of the Second Class, as the case may be.