Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 · Section 19

CrPC 19 in BNSS: no corresponding section

Section 19 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 was not carried into the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023: no BNSS section corresponds to it. CrPC 19 deals with subordination of Metropolitan Magistrates. The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita came into force on 1 July 2024, replacing the CrPC. Its full text is set out below.

Code of Criminal Procedure

CrPC 19 has no counterpart in the BNSS.

Subordination of Metropolitan Magistrates · It was not carried into the 2023 code.

Dropped
Old · CrPC 1973 · Ch. II
s. 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.
(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.
Text from the official India Code PDF
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