Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Section 526: Practising advocate not to sit as Magistrate in certain Courts

Chapter XXXIX — Miscellaneous

526. No advocate who practices in the Court of any Magistrate shall sit as a Magistrate in that Court or in any Court within the local jurisdiction of that Court.

Source: official text of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (Ministry of Home Affairs).