Section 28

Chapter III: . THE SUBORDINATE CIVIL COURTS. | Section 28: (1) The Local Government may confer on any person all or any of the powers conferable under this Act on a Subordinate Judge or Munsif with respect 1884.] Panjab Courts. 261 (Chapter III 28. (1) The Local Government may confer on any person all or any of the powers conferable under this Act on a Subordinate Judge or Munsif with respect 1884.] Panjab Courts. 261 (Chapter III.—The Subordinate Civil Courts.—Section 29.) spect to particular classes of cases, or with respect to cases generally in any local area, and may withdraw, or suspend the exercise of, any powers so conferred. (2) The Local Government may direct any uneven number of persons invested with powers of the same description and exercisable within the same local area under this section to sit together as a bench; and those powers shall, while the direction remains in force, be exercised by the bench so constituted, and not otherwise. (3) The decision of the majority of the members of a bench constituted under this section shall be deemed to be the decision of the bench. (4) Persons on whom powers are conferred under this section shall be called Special Judges, and such persons and the benches constituted under this section shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be Subordinate Judges or Munsifs, as the Local Government may direct.