CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1973
BHARATIYA NAGARIK SURAKSHA SANHITA, 2023
21. Special Executive Magistrates
14. Executive Magistrates
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CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1973
21. Special Executive Magistrates.—The State Government may appoint, for such term as it may
think fit, Executive Magistrates, to be known as Special Executive Magistrates, for particular areas or for
the performance of particular functions and confer on such Special Executive Magistrates such of the
powers as are conferrable under this Code on Executive Magistrates, as it may deem fit.
Legacy / repealed by BNSS India Code — CrPC 1973
BHARATIYA NAGARIK SURAKSHA SANHITA, 2023
14. Executive Magistrates.—(1) In every district, the State Government may appoint as many persons
as itthinks fit to be Executive Magistrates and shall appoint one of them to be the District Magistrate.
(2) The State Government may appoint any Executive Magistrate to be an Additional District
Magistrate, and such Magistrate shall have such of the powers of a District Magistrate under this Sanhita
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 powers and perform all the duties respectively conferred and
imposed by this Sanhita on the District Magistrate.
(4) The State Government may place an Executive Magistrate in charge of a 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.
(5) The State Government may, by general or special order and subject to such control and directions
as it may deem fit to impose, delegate its powers under sub-section (4) to the District Magistrate.
(6) 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 an Executive Magistrate.
Current law India Code — BNSS 2023