Section 14 of THE BHARATIYA NAGARIK SURAKSHA SANHITA, 2023 – BNSS

Executive Magistrates.

14. (1) In every district, the State Government may appoint as many persons as it
    thinks fit to be Executive Magistrates and shall appoint one of them to be the District
    Magistrate.
    (2) The State Government may appoint any Executive Magistrate to be an Additional
    District Magistrate, and such Magistrate shall have such of the powers of a District
    Magistrate under this Sanhita or under any other law for the time being in force as may be
    directed by the State Government.
    (3) Whenever, in consequence of the office of a District Magistrate becoming vacant,
    any officer succeeds temporarily to the executive administration of the district, such officer
    shall, pending the orders of the State Government, exercise all the powers and perform all
    the duties respectively conferred and imposed by this Sanhita on the District Magistrate.
    (4) The State Government may place an Executive Magistrate in charge of a
    sub-division and may relieve him of the charge as occasion requires; and the Magistrate so
    placed in charge of a sub-division shall be called the Sub-divisional Magistrate.
    (5) The State Government may, by general or special order and subject to such control
    and directions as it may deem fit to impose, delegate its powers under sub-section (4) to the
    District Magistrate.

(6) Nothing in this section shall preclude the State Government from conferring,
under any law for the time being in force, on a Commissioner of Police all or any of the
powers of an Executive Magistrate.

Section 7 in THE BHARATIYA NAGARIK SURAKSHA SANHITA, 2023 – BNSS