Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The Government may, by notification, and subject to such conditions Govern- ment to and limitations as may be specified therein, empower- authorise Commis- sioner and (a) the Comrnbsioneito exercise and perform in the area under his cerlain other ollicers ta charge the powers and duties of an Executive Magistrate and of exercise a District Magistrate under such of the provisions of the Code of powers of District , Criminal Procedure, 1973 asmay be specified in the notification; 2 or 1974. Magis- trales and Executive (b) 'any officer subordinate to the commissioner, not below the rank Magis- I . . trales of an Assistant Commissioner, to exercise and perform in relation under Ihe Code or , .to such areas of the Commissionerate as may be spec~f~ed in Criminal Procedure. the notification, the powers and duties of an Executive Magistrate under such of the provisions of the said Code as may be specified in the notification. (2) Every officer subordinate to Ihe Commissioner shall, in the exercise and performance of any powers and duties which he is empowered to exercise or perform under clause (b) of sub-section (1 ), be subject to the general control of the Commissioner in the same manner and to the same extent as an Executive Magistrate appointed under Section 20 of the said Code would be subject to the general control of the District Magistrate appointed under that Section. , . (3) The Commissioner or any officer subordinate to him shall not be subject,.irs the exercise and performance of any powers and duties which heis empowered to exercise and perform under sub-section (I), to the general control of the District Magistrate appointed under Section 20 of the said Code. (4) The provisions oC this Section shall have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the said Code. Powers of