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Courts Act 1971

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Version Superseded: 22/07/2004

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Part IIIE+W County Court Judges

7Each person who, immediately before the appointed day, held office as judge for a county court district shall be treated, on and after that day, as having been assigned to that district (in his capacity as a Circuit judge) under section 20(1) of this Act.

8Notwithstanding anything in section 20(4) of this Act, the termination by virtue of that section of a person’s appointment as temporary or deputy judge of a county court shall not prevent him from continuing to deal with any case which had been begun before him before the appointed day; and for the purposes of that case and of any proceedings subsequent thereon he shall continue, on and after the appointed day, to be treated as a temporary or deputy judge of the county court concerned as if section 20(4) of this Act and the repeal of the provisions of the M1County Courts Act 1959 relating to temporary and deputy judges of county courts had not been enacted.

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