CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1973
BHARATIYA NAGARIK SURAKSHA SANHITA, 2023
18. Special Metropolitan Magistrates
no BNSS section
changed or removed in old law
changed or added in new law
Similar wording stays plain; only differences are highlighted.
CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1973
18. Special Metropolitan Magistrates.—(1) The High Court may, if requested by the Central or State
Government so to do, confer upon any person who holds or has held any post under the Government, all
or any of the powers conferred or conferrable by or under this Code on a Metropolitan Magistrate, in
respect to particular cases or to particular classes of cases 3*** , in any metropolitan area within its local
jurisdiction:
Provided that no such power shall be conferred on a person unless he possesses such qualification or
experience in relation to legal affairs as the High Court may, by rules, specify.
(2) Such Magistrates shall be called Special Metropolitan Magistrates and shall be appointed for such
term, not exceeding one year at a time, as the High Court may, by general or special order, direct.
[(3) The High Court or the State Government, as the case may be, may empower any Special Metropolitan
1. Added by Act 45 of 1978, s. 5, (w.e.f. 18-12-1978).
2. Ins. by s. 5, ibid. (w.e.f. 18-12-1978).
3. The words “or to cases generally” omitted by s. 6, ibid., (w.e.f. 18-12-1978).
4. Subs. by Act 45 of 1978, s. 6, for sub-section (3) (w.e.f. 18-12-1978).
Magistrate to exercise, in any local area outside the metropolitan area, the powers of a Judicial Magistrate of the first
class.]
Legacy / repealed by BNSS India Code — CrPC 1973
BHARATIYA NAGARIK SURAKSHA SANHITA, 2023
No text available.