An Act to authorize the making of acting appointments to certain Judicial Offices.
Preamble
WHEREAS the 1[President], is empowered by divers enactments to appoint the Judges of certain Courts in 2[Bangladesh]: And whereas it has been doubted whether he [* * *] is empowered to appoint persons to act temporarily as such Judges, and it is expedient to remove such douIt;It is hereby enacted follows:-
Power to appoint acting Judges
1. In every case in which the 3[President], has power under any Act or Regulation to appoint a Judge of any Court,
such power shall be taken to include the power to appoint any person capable of being appointed a permanent Judge of such Court, to act as Judge of the same Court for such time as the 4[President], shall direct. Every person so appointed to act temporarily as a Judge of any such Court shall have the powers and perform the duties which he would have had and been liable to perform in case he had been duly appointed a permanent Judge of the same Court.
Certain enact-ments to be construed as if they contained a clause like section 1 of this Act
2. Every such Act and Regulation shall be construed as if it contained a special clause to the purport or effect of the first section of this Act.
The word “President” was substituted, for the words “Central Government or the Provincial Government as the case may be” by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).
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The word “President” was substituted, for the words “Central Government or the Provincial Government as the case may be” by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).
