CrPC Section 19: Subordination of Metropolitan Magistrates
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 · Chapter 2: Constitution of Criminal court and offices
Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS).
¶ 19. Subordination of Metropolitan Magistrates.- (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.
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(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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Not carried over into BNSS. CrPC → BNSS converterSource: BPR&D BNSS–CrPC corresponding section table (UP Police, 2024-07-03), p1
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Other sections in this chapter
- 6. Classes of Criminal Courts
- 7. Territorial divisions
- 8. Metropolitan areas
- 9. Court of Session
- 10. Subordination of Assistant Sessions Judges
- 11. Courts of Judicial Magistrates
- 12. Chief Judicial Magistrate and Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, etc
- 13. Special Judicial Magistrates
- 14. Local Jurisdiction of Judicial Magistrates
- 15. Subordination of Judicial Magistrates
- 16. Courts of Metropolitan Magistrates
- 17. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate
- 18. Special Metropolitan Magistrates
- 20. Executive Magistrates
- 21. Special Executive Magistrates
- 22. Local Jurisdiction of Executive Magistrates
- 23. Subordination of Executive Magistrates
- 24. Public Prosecutors
- 25. Assistant Public Prosecutors
- 25A. Directorate of Prosecution