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Provisions for extraordinary duties of Judges of the former Courts.
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16. If, in any case not expressly provided for by this Act, a liability to any duty, or any authority or power, not incident to the administration of justice in any Court whose jurisdiction is transferred by this Act to the High Court of Justice, shall have been imposed or conferred by any statute law or custom upon the Judges or any Judge of any of such Courts, every Judge of the said High Court, except where otherwise expressly directed by this Act, shall be capable of performing and exercising, and shall be liable to perform and empowered to exercise every such duty authority and power, in the same manner as if this Act had not passed, and as if he had been duly appointed the successor of a Judge liable to such duty, or possessing such authority or power, before the passing of this Act. Any such duty authority or power, imposed or conferred by any statute, law, or custom, in any such case as aforesaid upon the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, . . . or the Lord Chief Baron, shall continue to be performed and exercised by them respectively, and by their respective successors, in the same manner as if this Act had not passed.
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