DISTRICT COURT ACT 1973 - SECT 185 Savings as to places, sittings, Judges and officers etc

DISTRICT COURT ACT 1973 - SECT 185

185 Savings as to places, sittings, Judges and officers etc

(2) A person appointed as a judge under section 14 of the District Courts Act 1912 and holding office as such immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been appointed as a Judge under section 13 of this Act.

(3) A person appointed to sit and act as a judge under section 19A of the District Courts Act 1912 and whose appointment continues in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been appointed to act as a Judge under section 18 of this Act, but the person shall not, by virtue of this subsection, hold office as such for a time longer than that for which the person was appointed to exercise jurisdiction under section 19A of the District Courts Act 1912 .

(4) The person who was, immediately before the commencement of this Act, the Chairman of the District Court Judges shall be deemed to have been appointed as the Chief Judge under section 13 (4).

(5) A person appointed as a judge under the District Courts Act 1912 and not holding office as such immediately before the commencement of this Act, and the spouse of any such person, shall, notwithstanding anything in this Act, have the same rights as to salary, pension or otherwise which he or she would have had if this Act had not been enacted.

(7) A person holding office immediately before the commencement of this Act as a bailiff for a former Court appointed under section 26 (3) of the District Courts Act 1912 or an officer appointed under section 26 (4) of that Act to assist a bailiff for a former Court, shall be deemed to have been appointed under this Act as a bailiff or as an assistant bailiff, as the case may require, of the new Court for the proclaimed place that is the place at which the former Court was ordered, under section 4 (1) of the District Courts Act 1912 , to be holden.