CrPC 19 — Subordination of Metropolitan Magistrates

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Statutory text

(1) The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and every
Additional  Chief  Metropolitan  Magistrate  shall  be  subordinate  to  the  Sessions  Judge;  and  every  other
Metropolitan Magistrate shall, subject to the general control of the Sessions Judge, be subordinate to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate.
(2) The High Court may, for the purposes of this Code, define the extent of the subordination, if any, of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrates to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate.
(3) The  Chief  Metropolitan  Magistrate  may,  from  time  to  time,  make  rules  or  give  special  orders,
consistent with this Code, as to the distribution of business among the Metropolitan Magistrates and as to the allocation of business to an Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate.

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