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Chief Justice and Puisne Judges not to hold any other office of profit. Proviso.
* No. 3 of 1873. · SUPREME COURT.
(4) Judges temporarily appointed by the Governor under this section shall be given instruments of appointment under the public seal: Provided that any such instrument, in the case of a judge temporarily appointed for the purposes of the Full Court Ordinance, 1933, may provide that it shall take effect whenever and as often as the services of the judge may be required by the Chief Justice for the purposes of the said Ordinance: Provided also that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to require a special instrument in the case of the Judge of His Britannic Majesty's Supreme Court for China when a member of the Full Court under the said Ordinance.
11. No Chief Justice or Puisne Judge shall accept or perform any other office or place of profit or emolument not authorized by law: Provided that this section shall not apply to a Judge temporarily appointed under section 10.
Powers of a Puisne Judge to do acts directed to be performed by Chief Justice.
12. In all cases in which, by any law in force within the Colony, any judicial or other act is directed or authorized 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 the same had been performed by the Chief Justice.
Officers of the court.
$ 13.-(1) There shall be and belong to the Supreme Court the following officers, that is to say, a Registrar, one or more 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 powers and duties of the Registrar shall include such powers and duties as are for the time being assigned to the King's Remembrancer in England, and the Registry of the
* As amended by No. 27 of 1934 [24.8.34].
§ As amended by No. 20 of 1931 [4.9.31], No. 27 of 1934 [24.8.34] and Law Rev. Ord., 1937.
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Chief Justice
and Puisne
Judges not
to hold any other office of profit. Proviso.
*
No. 3 of 1873. · SUPREME COURT.
(4) Judges temporarily appointed by the Governor under this section shall be given instruments of appointment under the public seal: Provided that any such instrument, in the case of a judge temporarily appointed for the purposes of the Full Court Ordinance, 1933, may provide that it shall take effect whenever and as often as the services of the judge may be required by the Chief Justice for the purposes of the said Ordinance: Provided also that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to require a special instrument in the case of the Judge of His Britannic Majesty's Supreme Court for China when a member of the Full Court under the said Ordinance.
11. No Chief Justice or Puisne Judge shall accept or perform any other office or place of profit or emolument not authorized by law: Provided that this section shall not apply to a Judge temporarily appointed under section 10.
Powers of
a Puisne
to be
12. In all cases in which, by any law in force within the Judge to do Colony, any judicial or other act is directed or authorized to be acts directed 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 the same had been performed by the Chief Justice.
performed by Chief Justice.
Officers of the court.
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13.-(1) There shall be and belong to the Supreme Court the following officers, that is to say, a Registrar, one or more 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 execu- tion of all the powers and authorities which are granted and com- mitted 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 powers and duties of the Registrar shall include such powers and duties as are for the time being assigned to the King's Remembrancer in England, and the Registry of the
* As amended by No. 27 of 1934 [24.8.34].
§ As amended by No. 20 of 1931 [4.9.31], No. 27 of 1934 [24.8.34] and
Law Rev. Ord., 1937.
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