1[* * * * * * *] Illustration A is 2[tried by] the Sessions Court on a charge of culpable homicide. He may be convicted of voluntarily causing hurt, an offence triable by a Magistrate.

29. Offences under other laws.__

1. Subject to the 3[other provisions of this Code], any offence under any other law shall, when any Court is mentioned in this behalf in such law, be tried by such Court.
2. When no Court is so mentioned, it may be tried by the High Court or 4[subject as aforesaid] by any Court constituted under this Code by which such offence is shown in the eighth column of the second schedule to be triable 1[.] 1[* * * * * * *]

3[29A. Trial of European British subjects by second and third class Magistrates.] Omitted by the Criminal Law (Extinction of Discriminatory Privileges) Act, 1949 (II of 1950), s.2 and sch.

2[29B. Jurisdiction in the case of Juveniles. Any offence, other than one punishable with death or imprisonment for life, committed by any person who at the date when he appears or is brought before a Court is under the age of fifteen years, may be tried by any Judicial Magistrate specially empowered by the Provincial Government to exercise the powers conferred by section 8, sub-section (1), of the Reformatory Schools Act, 1897, or, in any area in which the said Act is not applicable, by any other law providing for the custody, trial or punishment of youthful offenders, by any Magistrate empowered by or under such law to exercise all or any of the powers conferred thereby.]

1[30. Offences not punishable with death. Notwithstanding anything contained in sections 28 and 29, the Provincial Government may invest any Magistrate of the first class with power to try as a Magistrate all offences not punishable with death.]

B.__ Sentences which may be passed by Courts of various Classes.

31. Sentences which High Courts and Sessions Judges may pass. __

1. A High Court may pass any sentence authorized by law.
2. A Sessions Judge or Additional Sessions Judge may pass any sentence authorized by law; but any sentence of death passed by any such Judge shall be subject to confirmation by the High Court.
3. An Assistant Sessions Judge may pass any sentence authorised by law, except a sentence of death or of 6[* * *] imprisonment for a term exceeding seven years.

1 Subs. and omitted by Ord. No. XXXVII of 2001, s.13-15(w.e.f. 14-08-2001). 2 Subs. by the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1972 (XII of 1972), s.2 and Sch. (for further clarity on this provision, the original source i.e. the Gazette Notifications of Legal Reforms Act, 1997 (XXIII of 1997), and Ordinance No. XXXVIII of 2001 may be perused. 3 Subs. by the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1923 (XII of 1923), ss. 5 & 6. 4 Ins. by Act No. XVIII of 1923, s.5. 6 Rep. by the Criminal Procedure (Amdt.) Act, 1974 (XXV of 1974), s.2 and Sch., (w.e.f. 13-4-72).