Act Info:
(1) Where the business pending before any District Judge requires the aid of Additional Judges for its speedy disposal, the State Government may,1[having consulted] the High Court2[* * *] appoint such Additional Judges as may be requisite.
(2) Additional Judges so appointed shall discharge any of the functions of a District Judgewhich the District Judge may assign to them, and, in the discharge of those functions, they shallexercise the same powers as the District Judge.
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1. Substituted for the words "upon the recommendation of by A. O. 1937.
2. The words "and with the previous sanction of the Governor-General in Council" were omitted by the Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts (Amendment) Act, 1911 (16 of 1911), Section 3.