EXECUTIVE MAGISTRATES.
1. In the criminal procedure code, the statute, it is given that, every district and in
every metropolitan area, the state government may appoint as many persons as it
thinks fit be executive magistrates and shall appoint as many persons as it
thinks fit to be executive magistrates and shall appoint one of them to be
district magistrate.
2. The state government may
appoint any executive magistrate to be an additional district magistrate, and
such magistrate shall have the powers of a district magistrate under this code
or under any other law for the time being in force as may be directed by the
state government.
3. Whenever in consequence of
the office of a district magistrate becoming vacant, any officer succeeds temporarily
to the executive administration of the district such officer shall pending the
orders of the state government, exercise all the power and perform all the
duties respectively conferred and imposed by this code on the district
magistrate.
4. The state government may place an executive magistrate in charge
of sub division and may relieve him of the charge as occasion requires; and the
magistrate so placed in charge of a sub division shall be called the
sub-divisional magistrate. (4A) The state government may by general or
special order and subject to such control and directions as it may deem fit to
impose, delegate it’s power under sub section(4) to the district magistrate
5. Nothing in this section shall
preclude the state government from conferring under any law for the time being
in force, on a commissioner of police, all or any of the powers of the
executive magistrate in relation to a metropolitan area.
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