10Amendments as to business in central office and as to officers of Supreme Court
(1)Directions under section twelve of the [42 & 43 Vict. c. 78.] Supreme Court of Judicature (Officers) Act, 1879, as to the business to be performed in, and the duties of the officers of, the central office of the Supreme Court shall, instead of being given by rules of court, be given by order of the Lord Chancellor.
(2)The clerks employed in the offices of the Supreme Court shall be classified in such manner as the Lord Chancellor, with the concurrence of the Treasury, may by order direct, and shall be employed in such capacities, as the Lord Chancellor may by order direct.
For the purposes of this subsection, the expression "the offices of the Supreme Court " shall include the department of the official solicitor to the Supreme Court, the bankruptcy department and the companies (winding-up) department, but shall not include the principal probate registry.
(3)The Lord Chancellor may from time to time ass respects any class of officers in the Supreme Court, with the concurrence of the Treasury, determine the number of persons who may be appointed to be officers of that class, and section fourteen of the [32 & 33 Vict. c. 91.] Court of Justice (Salaries and Funds) Act, 1869 (which relates to the-appointment of officers) shall, so far as it relates to officers of the Supreme Court, cease to have effect.
(4)From and after the commencement of this Act, the power to appoint a person to be a clerk in the office of the master in lunacy shall be vested in and exercisable by the Lord Chancellor, and that office shall be included among the offices of the Supreme Court.
(5)The central office of the Supreme Court shall comprise and shall be deemed always to have comprised the officers and persons employed in the Court of Criminal Appeal.