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SUPREME COURT ACT 1995 - SECT 286

286 Constitution of districts etc.

(1) A regulation may—

(a) constitute Supreme Court districts, each of which shall consist of a Magistrates Court district or 2 or more contiguous Magistrates Courts districts;
(b) constitute at each place where sittings of the court are to be held in a district a Supreme Court registry with a proper court seal or stamp.

(2) The chief justice is to decide—

(a) when and where the Supreme Court is to sit; and
(b) the way notice of when and where the Supreme Court is to sit may be given.

(3) The Governor in Council may from time to time appoint a registrar and deputy sheriff and such and so many other officers as are necessary in and for every Supreme Court district constituted under subsection (1).

(4) Unless or until otherwise prescribed, all existing districts and District Court registries constituted under and for the purposes of the repealed Acts, shall be deemed to have been constituted to be districts and registries for all purposes under this part, and shall continue subject to this part.

(5) Registrars appointed to act in and for a district shall, in relation to proceedings in their respective registries, be registrars of the Supreme Court, and shall have all the powers, jurisdictions, and authorities of such registrars.



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