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THE BHARATIYA NAGARIK SURAKSHA SANHITA, 2023

Statutory text, reformatted for reading. Consult the official source for authoritative text and later amendments.

Section 13 · Source pages 21–21

Subordination of Judicial Magistrates

(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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