Explanation:

Section 28 of Punjab Courts Act - 28. Special Judges and benches—(1) the Chief Commissioner may after consultation with the High Court appoint any person to be as Honorary Subordinate Judge, and the High Court may confer on such Judge all or any of the powers conferable under this Act on a Subordinate Judge with respect to particular classes of suits or with respect to suits generally in any local area. (2) The Chief Commissioner 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 relations 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 and the branches constituted under this section shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Part, to be Subordinate Judges.