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CrPC Section 15 in BNSS: Section 13

Subordination of Judicial Magistrates

Section 15 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Subordination of Judicial Magistrates) corresponds to Section 13 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, in force from 1 July 2024.

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.

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