Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
BNSS Section 13
Subordination of Judicial Magistrates
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BNSS Section 13 deals with subordination of judicial magistrates and replaces CrPC 15.
Bare act text — BNSS 13
13. 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
Frequently asked
What was BNSS Section 13 in the CrPC?
BNSS Section 13 (Subordination of Judicial Magistrates) replaces Section 15 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. CrPC 15 is now BNSS 13.
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Nearby BNSS sections
- BNSS 8 — Court of Session
- BNSS 9 — Courts of Judicial Magistrates
- BNSS 10 — Chief Judicial Magistrate and Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, etc
- BNSS 11 — Special Judicial Magistrates
- BNSS 12 — Local Jurisdiction of Judicial Magistrates
- BNSS 14 — Executive Magistrates
- BNSS 15 — Special Executive Magistrates
- BNSS 16 — Local Jurisdiction of Executive
- BNSS 17 — Subordination of Executive Magistrates
- BNSS 18 — Public Prosecutors