BNSS 13 — Subordination of Judicial Magistrates.

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

(1) Every Chief Judicial Magistrate shall be subordinate
to  the  Sessions  Judge; and  every  other  Judicial  Magistrate  shall,  subject  to  the  general  control  of  the
Sessions Judge, be subordinate to the Chief Judicial Magistrate.
(2) The Chief Judicial Magistrate may, from time to time, make rules or give special orders, consistent
with this Sanhita, as to the distribution of business among the Judicial Magistrates subordinate to him.

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