ORDINANCE No. 12 OF 1873.
Supreme Court (Reconstitution).
given shall be in full force and operation, notwithstanding any irregularity or want of form in the administration of the oath, declaration, or affirmation.
24. It shall be lawful for the Chief Justice to make general rules and orders, for regulating the times of holding the Court and the periods of the vacation thereof, the forms to be used and the fees to be payable therein, and also the fees of counsel and the costs of attorney, and such rules and orders from time to time to alter, amend, or revoke, as occasion may require: Provided always that no such rules or orders, or any alteration, amendment, or revocation thereof, shall be deemed binding until the same shall have been revised and approved of by the Legislative Council and shall have been published in the Gazette, but all such rules and orders and all such alterations, amendments and revocations thereof, when so revised, approved, and published as aforesaid, shall have the same force and effect for all purposes as if the same had been made by Ordinance and shall in like manner come into immediate operation subject to disallowance by Her Majesty.
25. The Full Court shall have power, upon reasonable cause, to suspend any barrister, advocate, solicitor, attorney, or proctor from practising as such within the Colony during any specified period, or to order his name to be struck off the Rolls of the Court: Provided always that this section shall not apply to the Attorney General or the Crown Solicitor.
26. There shall be a period of vacation for the Supreme Court in each year of two months. The months of August and September shall be the vacation months, and except as hereinafter mentioned, no business shall be transacted by the Supreme Court or the offices connected therewith during vacation.
27. The Supreme Court and the offices connected therewith shall be open during vacation for the purpose of holding the Ordinary Criminal Sessions, or any Special Criminal Session, and also for the purpose of issuing writs and of completing, by leave of the Court, any civil business actually commenced before the first day of vacation or of transacting any other business under the provisions of the section next hereinafter contained.
28. It shall be lawful for the Court during vacation to receive petitions and applications for injunctions, attachments, executions, and other urgent matters, and to grant and dissolve, or set aside the same, and also if it shall think expedient so to do.
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Power to make General Rules and Orders. [See No. 6 of 1845, s. 23 and No. 2 of 1846, s. 4.]
Striking off the Rolls and suspension from practice.
Vacation of the Court.
The Court to be open in vacation for certain purposes.
Power to transact urgent business in vacation.