SUPREME COURT.
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Chancellor of England, with full liberty to appoint and control guardians of infants and their estates, and also keepers of the persons and estates of idiots, lunatics, and such as, being of unsound mind, are unable to govern themselves and their estates.
9.-(1) The Supreme Court shall consist of and be reconstituted, holden by and before a Chief Justice and one or more other judges.
Reconstitution of the Supreme Court.
(2) Every Chief Justice and every Puisne Judge shall, save as is provided in section 5(3) of the Full Court Ordinance, 1912, be appointed by Letters Patent under the public seal by the Governor, in accordance with such instructions as he may receive through a Secretary of State.
No. 27 of 1912.
(3) The said judges, save as is provided in section 5(3) of the Full Court Ordinance, 1912, shall respectively hold their offices during the pleasure of His Majesty, subject to suspension by the Governor in like manner as other officers in the Colony.
[cf. No. 2 of 1862, s. 3.]
10.-(1) In case the office of any judge in the permanent service of the Colony becomes vacant by death or otherwise, it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint another fit and proper person to fill the said office until His Majesty's pleasure is known.
No. 3 of 1890, s. 113.
(2) In case of the temporary illness or absence of any of the 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.
* As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1923.