(1) The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and every Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate shall be subordinate to the Sessions Judge; and every other Metropolitan Magistrate shall, subject to the general control of the Sessions Judge, be subordinate to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate.
(2) The High Court may, for the purposes of this Code, define the extent of the subordination, if any, of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrates to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate.
(3) The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate may, from time to time, make rules or give special orders, consistent with this Code, as to the distribution of business among the Metropolitan Magistrates and as to the allocation of business to an Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate.
Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC)
11 CrPC Courts of Judicial Magistrates
12 CrPC Chief Judicial Magistrate and Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, etc
13 CrPC Special Judicial Magistrates
14 CrPC Local jurisdiction of Judicial Magistrates
15 CrPC Subordination of Judicial Magistrates
16 CrPC Courts of Metropolitan Magistrates
17 CrPC Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate
18 CrPC Special Metropolitan Magistrates