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Commissioners of the High Court on Circuit.
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36.—(1) Whenever before or during a half-yearly sittings of the High Court on Circuit the Executive Council is satisfied, on representations made by the Chief Justice and the President of the High Court, that for any reason the number of judges of the Supreme Court and of the High Court available for travelling and sitting for the purposes of such half-yearly sittings is or has become insufficient for those purposes, a practising barrister of not less than twelve years' standing may be appointed to be a Commissioner of the High Court on Circuit for the purposes of those half-yearly sittings.
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(2) Every Commissioner of the High Court on Circuit shall, during the half-yearly sittings or the remainder of the half-yearly sittings (as the case may be) of the High Court on Circuit for the purposes of which he is appointed, be an additional judge of the High Court and be entitled to the privileges and immunities of a judge of the High Court, but shall not sit or act as such judge elsewhere than in the High Court on Circuit.
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