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section 17

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate.

The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
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Chapter II CONSTITUTION OF CRIMINAL COURTS AND OFFICES

Statutory text
  1. (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. (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.

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