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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST SEPTEMBER, 1905.
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An Acting Judge shall, during the continuance of his appointinent, have all the power and authority of the Judge.
Assistant
9. During a vacancy or temporary vacancy in the office of Assistant Judge, Acting or in case of the absence, or illness, or other incapacity of an Assistant Judge, the Judge. Judge may, by writing under his hand and the seal of the Supreme Court, appoint any fit person, approved by the Secretary of State, or by His Majesty's Minister in China, to act as and for such Assistant Judge for the time therein mentioned or during the vacancy, as the case may be; but every such appointment shall be revocable, at pleasure, by the Judge, by writing under his hand and the seal of the Supreme Court, or by the Secretary of State.
The person so appointed shall, during the continuance of his appointment, have all the power and authority of an Assistant Judge.
Assistant
10. The Secretary of State may appoint either a person qualified as provided in Additional Article 7, or a Consular officer to act as an additional Assistant Judge, and any Judge. person so appointed shall, during the continuance of his appointment, have all the power and authority of an Assistant Judge.
Supreme
11. The Supreme Court shall have a scal, bearing the style of the Court and Scai of such device as the Secretary of State approves, but the seal in use at the commen- Court. cement of this Order shall continue to be usel until a new seal is provided.
12.-(1.) There shall be attached to the Supreme Court a Sheriff, a Crown Officers of
Supreme Advocate, a Registrar, a Chief Clerk, a Marshal,' and such other officers and clerks Court. under such designations as the Secretary of State thinks fit.
(2.) The Secretary of State, or His Majesty's Minister in China or Corea, as the case may be, may temporarily attach to the Supreme Court such persons, being Consular officers, as he thinks fit.
(3.) Every Officer, Clerk and other person thus attache I shall discharge such duties in connection with the Court as the Judge may direct, subject to any in- structions of the Secretary of State,
13. The Sheriff shall have all the powers and authorities of the Sheriff of a sheriff. county in England, with all the privileges and immunities of the office, and shall be charged with the execution of all decrees, orders, and sentences made and passed by the Supreme Court, on the requisition in that behalf of the Supreme Court.
He shall be entitled to such fees and costs as the Supreme Court may direct.
14. The Registrar shall be appointed by His Majesty.
He shall be either a member of the Bar of England, Scotland, or Ireland, or a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in England or Ireland, or a Writer to His Majesty's Signet or a Solicitor in the Supreme Court of Scotland.
He may also, with the approval of the Secretary of State, hold the office of Chief Clerk of the Supreme Court.
In case of the absence from Shanghai or of the illness of the Registrar, or during a vacancy in the office of Registrar, or during the employment of the Re- gistrar in another capacity, or on emergency, the Judge may, by writing under his hand and the seal of the Supreme Court, appoint any fit person to act as Registrar for the time therein mentioned, or until the appointment is revoked by the Judge or disapproved or revoked by the Secretary of State.
Registrar.
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