(1) All Assistant Sessions Judges shall be subordinate to the Sessions Judge in whose Court they exercise jurisdiction.
(2) The Sessions Judge may, from time to time, make rules consistent with this Code, as to the distribution of business among such Assistant Sessions Judges.
(3) The Sessions Judge may also make provision for the disposal of any urgent application, in the event of his absence or inability to act, by an Additional or Assistant Sessions Judge, or, if there be no Additional or Assistant Sessions Judge, by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, and every such Judge or Magistrate shall be deemed to have jurisdiction to deal with any such application.
Code of Criminal Procedure 1973
Section 1 Short title, extent and commencement
Section 3 Construction of references
Section 4 Trial of offences under the Indian Penal Code and other laws
Section 6 Classes of Criminal Courts
Section 7 Territorial divisions
Section 10 Subordination of Assistant Sessions Judges
Section 11 Courts of Judicial Magistrates
Section 12 Chief Judicial Magistrate and Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, etc
Section 13 Special Judicial Magistrates
Section 14 Local jurisdiction of Judicial Magistrates
Section 15 Subordination of Judicial Magistrates
Section 16 Courts of Metropolitan Magistrates
Section 17 Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate
Section 18 Special Metropolitan Magistrates