Powers and procedure of designated courts

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(1) Unless otherwise directed by the High Court, the designated court shall exercise jurisdiction in respect of specified .offences only. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (I), when ,trying any-case, the designated court may also try any offenm other than a specified @fence with which the accused may under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 be charged a? the same trial. (3) Nonhrithstanding anything contained. in the Code of Criminal Procedure, t 973, the designated court may, try the specified offence in 2 of 15 a summary way in accordance with the procedure prescribed in the said Code and the provisions of the sections 263 to 265 of the said Code, shalt, so far as may be, apply to such trial: Provided that in the case of any conviction in a summary trial under this section, it shall be lawful for the designated court to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years: Provided further that when, at the commencement of or in the course of a summary trial under this sectipn, it appears to the designated court that the nature of the case is such that a sentence of imprisonment for a term exceeding three years may have to be passed or that it is undesirable to try it in a summary way, the designated court shall after hearing the parties record an order to that effect and thereafter recall any witness who may have been examined and proceed to hear or rehear the case in the manner provided by the said

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