Subordination of Metropolitan Magistrates
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Summary
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and every Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate are subordinate to the Sessions Judge. Other Metropolitan Magistrates are subordinate to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, subject to the Sessions Judge's general control. The High Court can define how far that subordination goes, and the Chief may make rules to distribute and allocate court business.
Example
Rohan is a Metropolitan Magistrate at a city court. The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, under a distribution rule, assigns a burglary trial to another magistrate that would otherwise have gone to Rohan. Because Rohan is subordinate to the Chief (and the Chief is under the Sessions Judge), he must accept the allocation and follow the Chief's rules.
Bare Act
Enacted text(1) The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and every Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate shall be subordinate to the Sessions Judge, and every other Metropolitan Magistrate shall, subject to the general control of the Sessions Judge, be subordinate to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate.
(2) The High Court may, for the purposes of this Code, define the extent of the subordination if any, of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrates to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate.
(3) The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate may, from time to time, make rules or give special orders, consistent with this Code, as to the distribution of business among the Metropolitan Magistrates and as to the allocation of business to an Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate.
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