Court of Appeal Act 2014
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Chapter 6 Office of Registrar of Court of Appeal | ||
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Office of Registrar of Court of Appeal and Registrar of Court of Appeal | ||
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24. The Court Officers Act 1926 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 20 (amended by section 3 of the Act of 1961): | ||
“20A. (1) As soon as may be after the establishment day, there shall be, and be attached to the Court of Appeal— | ||
(a) an office which shall be known as the Office of the Registrar of the Court of Appeal, and | ||
(b) a registrar who shall be known as the Registrar of the Court of Appeal. | ||
(2) The Office of the Registrar of the Court of Appeal shall be under the management of the Registrar of the Court of Appeal and there shall be transacted in that Office all the business of the Court of Appeal (except such business as is for the time being required by law to be transacted by or before one or more of the judges of that Court). | ||
(3) The Registrar of the Court of Appeal shall have the superintendence and control of the Office of the Registrar of the Court of Appeal but shall in the exercise of such superintendence and control be subject to the general direction of the Courts Service in regard to all matters of general administration and to the directions of the President of the Court of Appeal in regard to all matters relating to the conduct of that part of the business of the Court of Appeal which is for the time being required by law to be transacted by or before one or more of the judges of that Court. | ||
(4) In addition to the superintendence and control referred to in subsection (3), the Registrar of the Court of Appeal shall act as registrar to that Court and shall perform and fulfill in relation to that Court all such duties and functions as are usually performed and fulfilled by the registrar of a court and shall also have and exercise such powers and authorities and perform and fulfill such duties and functions as shall from time to time be assigned to him or her by any enactment or rule of court. | ||
(5) In this section ‘the establishment day’ has the same meaning as it has in section 2 of the Court Of Appeal Act 2014.”. |