Appointment, qualifications and seniority
10 Appointment, qualifications and seniority
The Governor may, by commission under the Public Seal of the State, appoint as many persons as are needed for the due administration of this Act to be District Court judges.
A person is eligible for appointment as a District Court judge if that person is a lawyer and has had not less than 8 years’ legal experience.
A person so appointed shall be a District Court judge for the whole of the State and under his commission is empowered to act in the Court sitting at any place in the State.
The Governor may appoint one of the District Court judges to be the Chief Judge, and may, at any time, revoke his appointment as the Chief Judge.
[(4a) Omitted under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(e).]
The District Court judges other than the Chief Judge, have seniority among themselves according to the dates of their respective appointments as District Court judges, but if 2 or more of them are appointed on the same day, they have seniority according to the precedence assigned to them by the Governor, at the time he makes the appointments.
[Section 10 amended: No. 112 of 1978 s. 6; No. 122 of 1984 s. 7; No. 57 of 1997 s. 48(2); No. 65 of 2003 s. 111(4) and 125(3); No. 21 of 2008 s. 660(4); No. 9 of 2022 s. 352.]
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