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Court Officers Act, 1945

Special provision for person who, at the passing of this Act, holds the office of Master of the High Court, Taxing Master or County Registrar.

5.—(1) Notwithstanding the terms of section 4 of this Act, that section shall not apply in relation to a person who, at the passing of this Act, holds the office of Master of the High Court, Taxing Master or County Registrar unless and until he elects under this section to accept the provisions of the said section 4 .

(2) A person who, at the passing of this Act, holds the office of Master of the High Court, Taxing Master or County Registrar may, by notice in writing sent to the Minister at any time before he ceases to hold that office, elect to accept the provisions of section 4 of this Act.

(3) Where a person elects under this section, to accept the provisions of section 4 of this Act and, immediately before such election, he enjoyed a right to compensation, being a right referable to an office abolished by section 63 of the Principal Act—

(a) such election shall be deemed to constitute a waiver by him of such right, and

(b) paragraphs (c) and (f) of subsection-(5) of section 63 of the Principal Act shall not apply in relation to him.

(4) In any application of section 4 of this Act to a person who, at the passing of this Act, holds the office of Master of the High Court or County Registrar, any service by such person in an office attached at the passing of the Principal Act to any court shall be reckonable as if it were service in the office of Master of the High Court or County Registrar (as may be appropriate).

(5) Where a person who, at the passing of this Act, holds the office of County Registrar ceases to hold that office and has not elected under this section to accept the provisions of section 4 of this Act, any service by such person in an office abolished by section 63 of the Principal Act shall, in applying subsection (5) of section 35 of the Principal Act to him, be reckonable as service in the office of County Registrar.