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On vacancies of clerks except the most junior, the Lord Chancellor, &c. may promote from those holding appointments junior to that vacated.
If a vacancy occur in office of fifth clerk, it may be filled up by competitive examination.
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14. And whereas the official establishment of the office of the said Registrar of Judgments at present consists, in addition, to the said registrar and two searching clerks, and one writing clerk, of the following officers; that is to say, a chief clerk, a second clerk, and three junior clerks, who are respectively paid salaries according to a scale fixed by the Treasury :
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Be it therefore enacted, that if a vacancy shall occur in the office of such chief clerk, second clerk, third clerk, or fourth clerk, it shall be lawful for the said Lord Chancellor, Lord Chief Justice, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Master of the Rolls, and Lord Chief Baron, or any three of them, to appoint such one of the clerks holding an office junior in the establishment to the one so vacant as they shall consider most fit to fill such vacancy; and if a vacancy shall occur in the office of the fifth clerk, and if the Treasury shall consider it expedient to fill the same, be it further enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for the said Lord Chancellor, Lord Chief Justice, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Master of the Rolls, and Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, or any three of them, to nominate a sufficient number, not being less than five, of fit and competent persons, from amongst whom one shall be selected to fill such vacancy by competitive examination, according to regulations to be from time to time framed by Her Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners, and approved by the Treasury.
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