(a) shall, while holding that
office, be deemed by virtue of this section to be an additional Judge of
Appeal, and
(b) shall, while acting as an additional Judge of Appeal, have
all the powers, authorities, privileges and immunities of a Judge of Appeal,
and the provisions of section 36 (4) and (5) apply to and in respect of that
Chief Judge in the Chief Judge's capacity as an additional Judge of Appeal
under this section in the same way as they apply to and in respect of a Judge
in the Judge's capacity as an additional Judge of Appeal appointed or
nominated under section 36.
(3) The Chief Judges to whom this section applies
shall have seniority, rank and precedence over all the Judges (including any
Judge who is for the time being an additional Judge of Appeal otherwise than
by virtue of this section) except the Chief Justice, the President of the
Court of Appeal and the Judges of Appeal and over all persons who, in
accordance with the provisions of any Act, have the same rank, title, status
and precedence as a Judge of the Supreme Court.
(4) The Chief Judges to whom
this section applies shall have seniority, rank and precedence between
themselves according to the dates of their relevant commissions.
(5) If the
relevant commissions of more than one of the Chief Judges to whom this section
applies bear the same date they shall have seniority, rank and precedence
according to the seniority, rank and precedence assigned to them by their
relevant commissions, or failing any such assignment according to the order of
their being sworn--
(a) in the case of a Judge referred to in subsection (7)
(a)--as a Judge, or
(b) in the case of a Judge referred to in subsection (7)
(b)--as Chief Judge.
(6) If a Chief Judge to whom this section applies
resigns his or her office as a Chief Judge without resigning his or her office
as a Judge, he or she shall then have the seniority, rank, status and
precedence he or she would have had if he or she had not been a Chief Judge.
(7) In this section, a reference to the relevant commission is--
(a) in
relation to a Judge holding office as Chief Judge immediately before the
commencement of section 6 of the Administration of Justice Act 1973 --a
reference to the Judge's commission as a Judge, or
(b) in relation to a Judge
the date of whose commission as Chief Judge is later than the date of that
commencement--a reference to the Judge's commission as Chief Judge.
