Section 487: Appointment of a Magistrate of the First Class

(1) The State Government may with the consent of the 1Corporation create one or more posts of Magistrates of the First Class for the trial of offences against this Act, or may appoint any person to such post and may also appoint such ministerial officers or the court of any such Magistrate as it may think necessary:\br @s Provided that notwithstanding the appointment of one or more Magistrates of the First Class under this section, it shall be open to the District Magistrate subject to the rules for the time being in force under section 17 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, regulating the distribution of business in the Courts of Magistrates of the First Class to make such distribution of the work of trial of such offences and of all other work before the courts of the Magistrates (including any appointed under this section) as may appear to him most conducive to efficiency.\br @s (2) Such Magistrate or Magistrates and their establishments shall be paid such salary, pension, leave allowance and other allowances as may, from time to time, be fixed by the State Government.\br @s (3) The amount of the salary and other allowances as fixed under sub-section (2), together with all other incidental charges shall be reimbursed to the State Government by the 1Corporation, which shall also pay to the State Government such contribution towards the pension, leave and other allowances of such Magistrate or Magistrates and their establishment as may from time to time be fixed by the State Government:\br @s Provided that the State Government may, with the concurrence of the 1Corporation, direct that in lieu of the amounts payable under this section the 1Corporation shall pay to the State Government annually on such date as may be fixed by the State Government in this behalf such fixed sum as may be determined by the State Government in this behalf.\br @s