Courts of Justice Act, 1936

The judges of the High Court on Circuit.

35.—(1) The President of the High Court shall, if and when he thinks proper, travel and sit as a judge of the High Court on Circuit, and every other judge of the High Court shall travel and sit as a judge of the High Court on Circuit when requested by the President of the High Court so to do.

(2) Every ordinary judge of the Supreme Court shall travel and sit as a judge of the High Court on Circuit whenever requested by the Chief Justice so to do, and every such judge when so travelling and sitting shall be an additional judge of the High Court.

(3) The Chief Justice and the President of the High Court, after such consultation as they think proper with the judges concerned, shall determine, in respect of every half-yearly sittings of the High Court on Circuit, the several judges of the Supreme Court and of the High Court who shall be requested to travel and sit for the purposes of such sittings and the particular judge or judges who shall so travel and sit on each High Court Circuit.

(4) At any time during a half-yearly sittings of the High Court on Circuit, the Chief Justice and the President of the High Court, after consultation with the judges concerned, may make such rearrangement of the judges travelling and sitting for the purposes of such sittings and their allocation to particular High Court Circuits as may have become necessary or desirable owing to unforeseen circumstances.