"30. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 28 or section 29, the State Government may, in consultation with the High Court, invest any Judicial Magistrate of the first class with power to try as a Magistrate all offences not punishable with death or with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment for a term exceeding seven years:
Provided that no such Judicial Magistrate shall be invested with such powers unless he has, for not less than ten years, exercised powers not inferior to those of a Judicial Magistrate of the first class:
12 The West Bengal Separation of Judicial and Executive Functions Act, 1968.
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Provided further that if any Judicial Magistrate of the first class had, prior to his appointment as such Magistrate, exercised the powers of an Assistant Sessions Judge, he may be invested with the powers under this section notwithstanding that he had not exercised the powers of a Judicial Magistrate of the first class for ten years.".
17. In the marginal note of section 34, for the word "District", the words "Sub-divisional Judicial" shall be substituted.