Justice of the peace for the mafassal

³³[The Government] may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint such persons resident within Bangladesh and not being the subjects of any foreign State as it thinks fit to be Justices of the Peace within and for the local area mentioned in such notification.

³³ The words "The Government" were substituted, for the words and commas "A Provincial Government, so far as regards the territories subject to it, administration," by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)