The word “judge” denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a judge, but also every person who is empowered by law to give, in any legal proceeding, civil or criminal, a definitive judgment, or a judgment which, if not appealed against, would be definitive, or a judgment which, if confirmed by some other authority, would be definitive, or who is one of a body of persons, which body of persons is empowered by law to give such a judgment.
Section history
Section 19 — “Judge”
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
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(a) A Magistrate exercising jurisdiction in respect of a charge on which he has power to sentence to fine or imprisonment, with or without appeal, is a judge.
(b) Officers holding an inquiry as to the loss of a ship under the Merchant Shipping Act [Cap.2008(Cap.2008·2021 179]2008179)2008·202119952021 are judges.
(c) A Magistrate exercising jurisdiction in respect of a charge on which he has power only to commit for trial to another court, is not a judge.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 19]
There are no sections 13 to 16 and 18