Court of Appeal Act 2014

Amendment of section 14 of Act of 1961

23. Section 14 of the Act of 1961 is amended—

(a) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (2):

“(2A) The jurisdiction which is vested in or exercisable by the Court of Appeal and the President of the Court of Appeal respectively shall be exercised so far as regards pleading, practice and procedure generally, including liability to costs, in the manner provided by rules of court, and, where no provision is contained in such rules and so long as there is no rule with reference thereto, it shall be exercised as nearly as possible in the same manner as it might have been exercised by the respective courts or judges by which or by whom such jurisdiction was, immediately before the establishment day (within the meaning of section 2 of the Act of 2014), respectively exercisable.”,

and

(b) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3):

“(3) Rules of court may, in relation to proceedings and matters (not being criminal proceedings or matters or matters relating to the liberty of the person) in the High Court, the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, authorise the Master of the High Court and other principal officers, within the meaning of the Court Officers Acts 1926 to 2014 to exercise functions, powers and jurisdiction in uncontested cases and to take accounts, conduct inquiries and make orders of an interlocutory nature.”.