Description

1. In every district and metropolitan area, the State Government may appoint as many persons as it deems necessary to serve as Executive Magistrates and shall appoint one of them as the District Magistrate.
2. The State Government may appoint any Executive Magistrate to be an Additional District Magistrate, and such Magistrate shall have the powers of a District Magistrate under this Code or any other applicable law, as directed by the State Government.
3. Whenever the office of the District Magistrate becomes vacant, and an officer temporarily assumes the executive administration of the district, that officer shall, pending the orders of the State Government, exercise all the powers and perform all the duties conferred and imposed by this Code on the District Magistrate.
4. The State Government may assign an Executive Magistrate to oversee a sub-division and may relieve them of this charge as necessary. The Magistrate in charge of a sub-division shall be called the Sub-divisional Magistrate.
5. Sub-section 4A: The State Government may, by general or special order and subject to such control and directions as it deems fit, delegate its powers under Sub-section (4) to the District Magistrate.
6. Nothing in this section shall prevent the State Government from conferring, under any law currently in force, all or any of the powers of an Executive Magistrate in relation to a metropolitan area to a Commissioner of Police.