Family Courts Act 2024
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Assignment of persons to act temporarily as additional judges of Family Circuit Court | ||
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30. (1) Whenever it appears to the President of the Circuit Court that, owing to the temporary absence from duty for any cause of a judge of the Family Circuit Court, or an unusual and temporary increase in the business of the Family Circuit Court on any Family Circuit Court circuit, or any other cause, it is necessary, in order to prevent the work of the Family Circuit Court getting into arrear either generally or on any particular Family Circuit Court circuits or circuit, to increase temporarily the number of the judges of the Family Circuit Court, one or more ordinary judges of the Circuit Court may be assigned to act as a judge of the Family Circuit Court for such period as the President shall think proper in respect of each such person. | ||
(2) Whenever it appears to the President of the Circuit Court that, in circumstances of urgency, an application in family law proceedings is required to be heard without delay and no judge of the Family Circuit Court is available to hear the application, one or more ordinary judges of the Circuit Court may be assigned by the President to hear the application. | ||
(3) Whenever an ordinary judge of the Circuit Court sits in the Family Circuit Court in accordance with subsection (1) or (2), he or she shall be— | ||
(a) an additional judge of the Family Circuit Court for all the purposes of that Court, and | ||
(b) deemed to have jurisdiction for the purposes of section 22A (inserted by section 20 ) of the Act of 1961. |