Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The Government may, by notilication, and subject to such Comrnis- ,i,,,, conditions and limitations as hay be specified therein, empower- under other Acls. (a) the Commissioner to exercise and pertorm in the area under his charge the powers and duties of a District Magistrate under such of the provisions of the Acts specified in the schedule includiug rules made thereunder as may be specified in the notification, and (b) any officer subordinate to the Commissioner, not below the rank of an Assistant Commissioner, to exercise and perform in relation to such' areas of the Commissionerate as may be specified in the notification, the powers and duties of a ~istrict Magistrate or of an Executive Magistrate under such of the provisions of the Acts including rules made thereunder, referred to in clause (a), as may be specified in the notification. (2) Every officer subordinate to the Commissionkr 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. Laying of