(1) Every State shall be a sessions division or shall consist of sessions divisions; and every sessions divisions shall, for the purposes of this Code, be a district or consist of districts:
Provided that every metropolitan area shall, for the said purposes, be a separate sessions division and district.
(2) The State Government may, after consultation with the High Court, alter the limits or the number of such divisions and districts.
(3) The State Government may, after consultation with the High Court, divide any district into subdivisions and may alter the limits or the number of such sub-divisions.
(4) The sessions divisions, districts and sub-divisions existing in a State at the commencement of this Code, shall be deemed to have been formed under this section.
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