(1) Subject of the provision of section 157 the Examining Magistrate may carry out preliminary inquiries only if the State Counsel, by judicial act, requests him to do so.
(2) The judicial act by which the State Counsel seizes the Examining Magistrate shall be called a holding charge.
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