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Clause 10.

Clause 11.

Clause 12.

periods in which the Court of Appeal will be sitting I have thus amended the Ordinance so as to provide for the Sessions being held every alternate month. This will not inflict any hardship on prisoners. The existing monthly Session in my opinion in any case is undesirable and I understand that my predecessors shared this view.

Reserves to the Divisional Court (formerly the Full Court) certain appellate jurisdiction which it is submitted it should possess.

Sub-section 2. This procedure is based in short on section 607 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

Sub-section 3. This limits the time for appeals under (b) and (c). The time for appeals under (a) is dealt with in clause 13.

This vests appeals from Magistrates in the Divisional Court.

Gives a casting vote to the Chief Justice when the two Judges differ in the Divisional Court (vide section 24 of Supreme Court Ordinance 1873 to be repealed by this Bill).

Provides for appeals from the Divisional Court to the Court of Appeal when the two Judges differ and it makes Part IV of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to appeals apply mutatis mutandis to appeals from the Divisional Court to the Court of Appeal as well to appeals under the next succeeding section (i.e. clause 12) from a Judge sitting alone (clause 5 substitutes in the Code the term "The Court of Appeal" for "The Full Court").

Defines the Jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal.

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