§ Read 3ª (according to Order).
§ Clause 1:
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Constitution of Court of Criminal Appeal.
(10) The registrar of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland shall be the registrar of the Court (hereafter in this Act referred to as "the Registrar"), and the Lord Chief Justice may direct any other officer of, or attached to, the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland to render such assistance to the Registrar as the Lord Chief Justice may think necessary for the purposes of this Act and in the event of any vacancy in the office of the Registrar or in the event of the incapacity of the Registrar to act from any reason, the Lord Chief Justice may direct any other officer of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland to exercise the powers and perform the duties of the Registrar under this Act.
§ LORD CUSHENDUN had on the Paper an Amendment in subsection (10), after the first "Act," to insert "at such remuneration as, with consent of the Treasury, he may determine." The noble Lord said: My Lords, I do not move.
§ THE LORD CHANCELLOR (LORD SANKEY)My Lords, I am very much obliged to my noble friend for not moving this Amendment. The position is this. The Bill has been introduced as an agreed measure, and if the Amendment were proceeded with the progress of the Bill might be impeded, with the result that it might fail to pass during the present Session of Parliament, as desired by the Government of Northern Ireland. It is quite unnecessary, I can assure the noble Lord, to move it, as the Treasury already have power under the existing Statutes to deal with the remuneration of officers of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland, there being one staff common to all branches of the judicature. We have been in communication with the Lord Chief Justice as to the remuneration of the officer who may be called upon to assist the Registrar of the Supreme Court in connection with matters arising under the Bill, and the matter will be satisfactorily arranged between the Treasury and the authorities in Northern Ireland.
§ Amendments (Privilege) made.
§ Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.