Court Proceedings (Delays) Act 2024
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Functions of Assessor and judicial functions | ||
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32. (1) No function conferred on an Assessor under this Act shall be exercised so as to interfere with the conduct of that part of the business of the courts required by law to be transacted by or before one or more judges or to impugn the independence of— | ||
(a) a judge in the performance of his or her judicial functions, or | ||
(b) a person other than a judge in the performance of limited functions of a judicial nature conferred on that person by law. | ||
(2) Nothing in this Act shall operate to affect— | ||
(a) the independence of a judge in the performance of his or her judicial functions, or | ||
(b) any enactment or rule of law relating to immunity from suit of judges. | ||
(3) In subsection (2), “enactment” has the same meaning as it has in section 2 (1) of the Interpretation Act 2005 . |