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Amendment
7.
of section B.
(a)
is acting. from any cause whatsoever, and the acts of a temporary judge done therein shall be as valid as if there had been no such vacation of office, and the temporary judge shall continue to act as such until either his appoint- ment is terminated or a successor to the office is appoint- ed.
(4) Where a magistrate is appointed to be a tem- porary judge he shall not by reason of such appointment be precluded from validly exercising and discharging his powers, duties and functions as a magistrate in relation to any proceedings duly commenced before him in his capacity as a magistrate prior to his appointment as a temporary judge.".
Section 8 of the principal Ordinance is amended--
by the deletion in subsection (2) of the words "District Judge" and the substitution therefor of the following-
"judge"; and
(b) by the deletion in subsection (3) of the words "any such directions, or the District Court Civil Procedure Rules or the District Court Criminal Procedure Rules, may direct", and the substitution therefor of the following-
8.
deletion
Amendment of section 9.
Amendment
9.
of section 10,
(a)
"may be prescribed or as any such direction may authorize".
Section 9 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the of the word “District".
Section 10 of the principal Ordinance is amended-
by the deletion in subsection (1) of the word "District":
(b) by the deletion of subsection (2) and the substitution therefor
of the following-
“(2) In addition to any functions, powers and duties which he is by this or any other enactment enabled to exercise or required to discharge, the Registrar, and every deputy registrar, bailiff, eleck of the Court, clerk, interpreter and other officer appointed or attached to the Court under the pro- visions of subsection (1) may exercise and discharge the like functions, powers and duties respectively insofar as the same are applicable to the business and proceedings of the Court, as those exercised and discharged by a registrar, deputy registrar. bailiff, clerk of the Court, clerk, interpreter or other
(Cap. 4).
officer attached to the Supreme Court under sub- section (1) of section 17 of the Supreme Court Ordinance.";
(e) by the deletion in subsection (3) of the words, figure and symbols "a registrar appointed to the District Court under subsection (1) and the words "that Court" and the substitu- tion therefor, respectively, of the following-
"the Registrar" and "the Court";
(d) by the deletion in subsection (4) of the word "District" wherever it occurs and the addition after the word “Registrar”, where it first occurs, of the words "of the Supreme Court":
(e) by the addition in subsection (5) after the words "under that Ordinance", where they first appear, of a full stop and by the deletion of the remainder of that subsection and the marginal note "(Cap. 5).".
10. Section II of the principal Ordinance is repeated and replaced Repeal and by the following-
replacement of section 11.
"Right of audience.
11. (1) In any proceedings in the Court, any of the following persons may address the Court, namely-
(4) any party to the proceedings:
(6) a barrister qualified to practise in the Supreme Court and retained by or on behalf of any party:
(c) a solicitor qualified to practise in the Supreme Court and acting generally in the proceedings for a party thereto, but not a solicitor retained as an advocate by a solicitor so acting;
(2) any other person allowed by leave of the Court to appear instead of a party to the proceedings: Provided that the right of a solicitor to address the Court shall not be excluded by reason only that he is in the permanent and exclusive employment of any other solicitor.
(2) No person other than a solicitor shall be entitled to have or to recover any fee or reward for appearing or acting on behalf of any other party in any proceedings in the Court:
Provided that nothing in this Ordinance shall affect the right of any barrister to appear or to act in the Court or of any solicitor to recover costs in respect of his employ- ment of a barrister to appear or to act as aforesaid.
(3) In criminal proceedings in the Court, any public officer or member of a class of public officers appointed by the Attorney General to act as public prosecutor may