Section 17: Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate

the Code of Criminal Procedure ActUnion territory Act of Delhi · Act 2 of 1974

Repealed. This text is published for reference. It is not in force, and it should not be relied on as current law without checking what replaced it. Repealed by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, with effect from 1 July 2024

(1) The High Court shall, in relation to every metropolitan area within its local jurisdiction, appoint a Metropolitan Magistrate to be the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate for such metropolitan area.

(2) The High Court may appoint any Metropolitan Magistrate to be an Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, and such Magistrate shall have all or any of the powers of a Chief Metropolitan Magistrate under this Code or under any other law for the time being in force as the High Court may direct.

Where this provision sits

Act	the Code of Criminal Procedure Act
Section	17
Marginal note	Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate
Jurisdiction	Union territory of Delhi
Status	Repealed

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