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Duties to be performed by officers in person.
Deputy may in certain cases be appointed.
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32. The registrar [1
and clerks] appointed under this Act shall respectively perform their duties in person, except only in case of absence under the sanction herein-after provided; (that is to say,) in case of illness or other necessary or proper cause of absence it shall be lawful for the said registrar from time to time as occasion may require, to appoint a deputy, (such deputy, and also the occasion for such appointment, to be first approved of by the lord chancellor, upon a petition being verified,) for such time and under such regulations as the lord chancellor shall direct; and no such appointment of a deputy shall continue for any longer time than shall be allowed and specified in and by the order which shall be made on such petition; and such deputy shall be paid, out of the salary of such registrar such sum as shall be directed by the said order; and at all times during the temporary absence of the said registrar under such permission as aforesaid the signature of his deputy shall be good and valid to any search or other document requiring the signature of such registrar.
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