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SUPREME COURT.
No. 3 of 1873.
be lawful for the Governor to appoint another fit and proper person to fill the said office until His Majesty's pleasure is known.
1890 s. 113.]
(2) In case of the temporary illness or absence of any of the [See No. 3 of said Judges, it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint a fit and proper person to fill the office of such Judge until he resumes the duties thereof: Provided always that, until such appointment is made, the whole business of the Court, except the hearing of matters required to be heard before the Full Court, shall devolve upon and be transacted by the remaining or continuing Judge or Judges in the permanent service of the Colony.
11. No Judge of the Supreme Court shall be capable of accepting, taking, or performing any other office or place of profit or emolument not authorised by law, on pain that the acceptance of any such other office or place as aforesaid shall be and be deemed in law de facto an avoidance of his office of Judge, and the salary thereof shall cease, and be deemed to have ceased accordingly, from the time of such acceptance of such other office or place.
12. In all cases in which, by any law in force within the Colony, any judicial or other act is directed or authorised to be performed by the Chief Justice, such act may be performed by any other Judge, and if so performed shall, subject to the provisions of section 23, be as valid to all intents and purposes as if it had been performed by the Chief Justice.
13.—(1) There shall be and belong to the Supreme Court the following officers, that is to say, a Registrar, two Deputy Registrars, two clerks of the Court, and so many clerks, interpreters, and other officers as to the Governor may appear to be necessary for the administration of justice and the due execution of all the powers and authorities which are granted and committed to the Court by this Ordinance. All acts which under any Ordinance are required to be or may lawfully be done by the Registrar, may, unless it is otherwise provided, be done by a Deputy Registrar.
(2) The Governor may appoint one or more bailiffs of the Supreme Court, and may also approve of the appointment by any such bailiff of a deputy bailiff.
As amended by No. 27 of 1912.
As amended by No. 50 of 1911, No. 62 of 1911 and No. 63 of 1911.