Appointment and jurisdiction of commissioners
24 Appointment and jurisdiction of commissioners
The Governor may, by general or special commission under the Public Seal of the State, assign to a person qualified to be appointed a District Court judge under section 10, or to a magistrate the duty of hearing and determining at any place where a sitting of the Court is to be held, any causes or matters, on any questions or issues of fact or of law or partly of the one and partly of the other in any cause or matter, depending in the Court, in the exercise of any civil or criminal jurisdiction capable of being exercised by a District Court judge.
A person to whom a commission is given under this section has, while the commission is in force, all the powers, rights and privileges that are conferred on a District Court judge by or under this Act, and the commission has effect as if its terms as they exist from time to time were enacted in this Act.
The Governor may, at any time, annul, vary or amend any commission given by him under this section.
[Section 24 amended: No. 57 of 1997 s. 48(3); No. 27 of 2000 s. 4; No. 65 of 2003 s. 125(7); No. 59 of 2004 s. 85.]
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