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Judicature (Amendment) Act (No. 71 of 1981) - Sect 4

Amendment of section 6 of the principal enactment

4. Section 6 of the principal enactment is hereby amended
(a) by the substitution for subsection (1) thereof, of the following subsection:
"(1) Every District Judge and Judge of the Family Court, Magistrate, and Judge of the Primary Court and all such Additional Judges and Magistrates of such courts shall be appointed to their offices by the Judicial Service Commission, "; and
(b) by the repeal of subsection (3) of that section and the substitution therefor, of the following subsection:
" (3) The age of retirement of a Judge of the High Court (other than a Commissioner of the High Court appointed under Article 11IA [Cap. I] of the Constitution) shall be sixty-one years. ",


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