Supreme Court of Judicature (Amendment) Act 1935
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1935 c. 2 |
| Year | 1935 |
Supreme Court of Judicature (Amendment) Act, 1935.
(25 & 26 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 2.
An Act to amend the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, by increasing to nineteen the number of puisne judges who may be appointed to be attached to the King's Bench Division of the High Court, by making provision for the appointment and precedence of a Vice-President of the Court of Appeal, by permitting certain orders of court in matrimonial proceedings to be made before decree absolute, and by providing for the hearing in camera of certain evidence in nullity proceedings; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[12th February 1935]
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Amendment of 15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 49 ss.4 and 11.
(1) The number of puisne judges who may be appointed to be attached to the King's Bench Division of the High Court shall be increased to nineteen; and accordingly paragraph (ii) of subsection (1) of section four of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, (hereinafter referred to as ‘the principal Act’) (which determines the constitution of that Division) shall have effect as if for the word ‘seventeen’ there were therein substituted the word ‘nineteen.’
(2) Proviso (a ) to subsection (1) of section eleven of the principal Act (which provides that, whenever the whole number of puisne judges attached to the King's Bench Division amounts to fifteen or upwards, a vacancy occurring among them shall not be filled except after presentation to His Majesty of an address from both Houses of Parliament) shall have effect as if for the words ‘Whenever the whole number of the puisne judges attached to the King's Bench Division amounts to fifteen or upwards, a vacancy occurring among those judges’ there were therein substituted the words ‘If after the occurrence at any time of a vacancy among the puisne judges attached to the King's Bench Division, the number of those judges amounts to seventeen or more, the vacancy’.
(3) The said proviso (a ) shall not apply to any appointment made by virtue of the provisions of subsection (1) of this section within a period of one year from the passing of this Act, but for the purposes of the application of the said proviso to any such...
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