FAMILY LAW ACT 1975 No. 53 of 1975 - SECT 30 Court divided in opinion.

FAMILY LAW ACT 1975 No. 53 of 1975 - SECT 30

30. If the Judges constituting the Court for the purposes of any proceedings
are divided in opinion as to the judgment to be pronounced, judgment shall be
pronounced according to the opinion of the majority, if there is a majority,
but, if the Judges are equally divided in opinion-

   (a)  in the case of an appeal from a judgment of the Family Court
        constituted by a single Judge, or of the Supreme Court of a State-the
        judgment appealed from shall be affirmed; and

   (b)  in any other case-the opinion of the Chief Judge or, if he is not one
        of the Judges constituting the Court, the opinion of the most senior
        of those Judges, shall prevail.