Court of Appeal Act 2014

Deputies for principal officers - office of Registrar of Court of Appeal

25. The Court Officers Act 1926 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 28:

28A. The Courts Service may nominate one of the officers for the time being serving in the Office of the Registrar of the Court of Appeal to be the deputy for the principal officer having under this Act the management of such office, and every officer so nominated shall, during every temporary absence and every temporary incapacity through illness of such principal officer and every occasion on which the office of the Registrar is vacant occurring while such nomination remains unrevoked, have and exercise the powers and authorities and perform and fulfil the duties and functions for the time being vested by law in such principal officer.”.