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BNSS Section 13: Subordination of Judicial Magistrates

Section 13 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 deals with subordination of Judicial Magistrates. It replaces CrPC 15 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

Text of BNSS Section 13

13. (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.

Executive Magistrates.

CrPC sections replaced

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