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(a) The High Court may designate any Judicial Magistrate of the first class in any sub-division as the Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate and relieve him of the responsibilities specified in this section as occasion requires.
(b) Subject to the general control of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, every Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate shall also have and exercise, such powers of supervision and control over the work or the Judicial Magistrates (other than Additional Chief Judicial Magistrates) in the sub-division as the High Court may, by general or special order, specify in this behalf.
STATE AMENDMENTS
Nagaland:
In sub-section (3) the words "High Court" shall be substituted by the words "State Government" wherever they occur.
[Vide Notification Law 170/74 Leg. dated 3-7-2023].
Uttar Pradesh:
After sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely.
"(4) Where the office of the Chief Judicial Magistrate is vacant or he is incapacitated by illness, absence or otherwise for the performance of his duties, the senior-most among the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate and other judicial Magistrates present at the place, and in their absence the district magistrate and in his absence the senior-most Executive Magistrate shall dispose of the urgent work of the Chief judicial Magistrate."
[Vide U.P. Act 1 of 1984, sec. 3 (w.e.f. 1-5-2024)]
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