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# The Acting Judges Act, 1867

> An Act to authorize the making of acting appointments to certain Judicial Offices.

**Status:** Active

**Date of Publication:** 1st March, 1867

**Act No:** XVI OF 1867

### Preamble

WHEREAS the <sup><a id="fnref-1" href="#fn-1">1</a></sup> \[President], is empowered by divers enactments to appoint the Judges of certain Courts in <sup><a id="fnref-2" href="#fn-2">2</a></sup> \[Bangladesh]: And whereas it has been doubted whether he \[\* \* \*] is empowered to appoint persons to act temporarily as such Judges, and it is expedient to remove such douIt;It is hereby enacted follows:-

### Power to appoint acting Judges

1\. In every case in which the <sup><a id="fnref-3" href="#fn-3">3</a></sup> \[President], has power under any Act or Regulation to appoint a Judge of any Court, such power shall be taken to include the power to appoint any person capable of being appointed a permanent Judge of such Court, to act as Judge of the same Court for such time as the <sup><a id="fnref-4" href="#fn-4">4</a></sup> \[President], shall direct. Every person so appointed to act temporarily as a Judge of any such Court shall have the powers and perform the duties which he would have had and been liable to perform in case he had been duly appointed a permanent Judge of the same Court.

### Certain enact-ments to be construed as if they contained a clause like section 1 of this Act

2\. Every such Act and Regulation shall be construed as if it contained a special clause to the purport or effect of the first section of this Act.

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### Footnotes

<a id="fn-1" />**1.** The word “Bangladesh” was substituted, for the word “Pakistan” by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the [Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973](/laws/act-430 "Act 430") (Act No. VIII of 1973)

<a id="fn-2" />**2.** The words “or it” were omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the [Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973](/laws/act-430 "Act 430") (Act No. VIII of 1973)

<a id="fn-3" />**3.** The word “President” was substituted, for the words “Central Government or the Provincial Government as the case may be” by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the [Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973](/laws/act-430 "Act 430") (Act No. VIII of 1973).

<a id="fn-4" />**4.** The word “President” was substituted, for the words “Central Government or the Provincial Government as the case may be” by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the [Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973](/laws/act-430 "Act 430") (Act No. VIII of 1973).

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  Click [here](http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/act-details-17.html) to see the original act on the Bangladesh Legal Database.
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