Section 18
Overriding effect of Act in criminal trial.
About this Act
An Act to provide for the establishment of Gram Nyayalayas at the grass roots level for the purposes of providing access to justice to the citizens at their doorsteps and to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of social, economic or other disabilities and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
The provisions of this Act shall have effect
notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974) or any other
law, but save as expressly provided in this Act, the provisions of the Code shall, in so far as they are not
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, apply to the proceedings before a Gram Nyayalaya; and for
the purpose of the said provisions of the Code, the Gram Nyayalaya shall be deemed to be a Court of
Judicial Magistrate of the first class.