(b) subject to paragraphs (c) and (d), a
reference to a District Court judge shall be read and construed as a reference
to a Judge appointed under this Act,
(c) subject to paragraph (d), a
reference to a District Court judge within whose jurisdiction, or within whose
district, or of or for the district where, or having or exercising
jurisdiction within the district where, a place, building, institution or any
other matter or thing is situated, or an event occurred or is occurring or is
expected to occur, or a person has his or her place of abode or resides or
carries on his or her business, shall be read and construed as a reference to
the new Court sitting at the nearest proclaimed place to the place where that
place, building, institution, matter or thing is situated, or that event
occurred or is occurring or is expected to occur, or that person has his or
her place of abode or resides or carries on his or her business, and
(d) a
reference to a District Court judge occurring in conjunction with or in
relation to a reference to a district shall, if the rules so provide, be read
and construed as a reference to the new Court sitting at the proclaimed place
specified in or determined in accordance with the rules.
(2) Subject to
subsections (1) (c) and (d) and (3), where under an instrument a power (other
than a power to make rules) is vested in the District Courtjudges, or in any
number of them, or a majority of them, or any one of them that power shall be
exercised by the new Court in all respects as those judges or that judge might
have exercised the power immediately before the commencement of this Act, but
in accordance with this Act and the rules.
(3) The Governor may direct by
proclamation that--
(a) subsection (1) (c) and (d) shall not apply to a
reference specified in the proclamation, or
(b) subsection (2) shall not
apply to any power specified in the proclamation,
(4) Sections 40 and 41 of the Interpretation Act 1987 apply to a
proclamation under subsection (3) in the same way as they apply to a statutory
rule within the meaning of that Act.