§480 — Practising pleader not to sit as Magistrate in certain Courts

State amendments

This section has been amended in its application to Karnataka. The text above is the central provision and is what applies everywhere else — these amendments are law only in the State that made them.

• Karnataka[Vide Karnataka Act 35 of 1984, s. 2]Read →Hide

  Karnataka Insertion of new section 480A. —After section 480 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974) the following Section shall be inserted, namely:— “480A. Other powers of Magistrate.—Any Judicial Magistrate or Executive Magistrate shall be entitled to attest, verify or authenticate any document brought before him for the purpose of attestation, verification or authentication, as the case may be, and to affix seals thereon, as may be prescribed by any law for the time being in force.”.

Reproduced from the same official PDF as the section above, as the amending Act words it — not a consolidated State version of the section. Check the source before relying on it.