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(2) The foregoing provisions of this section. with the A.D. 1928. omission of paragraphs (a), (b) and (c), shall, notwithstanding anything in any Act, apply to the person who is the holder of the office of Vice-Chancellor at the date 5 of the passing of this Act.

16. (1) Where His Majesty is satisfied that reci- Extension procal provisions have been made by the Legislature of Part II. of any part of His Majesty's dominions outside the of 10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 81 United Kingdom for the enforcement within that part to revenue 10 of His dominions of judgments or orders obtained in proceedings. revenue proceedings (whether a sum of money is or is not made payable thereby) in the High Court in England, the Court of Session in Scotland and the High Court in Northern Ireland, His Majesty may by Order in 15 Council declare that Part II. of the Administration of Justice Act, 1920, shall extend to that part of His dominions as if the expression judgment" meant a judgment or order given or made by a court in any revenue proceedings, whether a sum of money is or is 20 not made payable thereby and as if paragraphs (b) and (f) of subsection (2) of section nine and section fourteen were omitted therefrom, and on any such order being made that Part of that Act shall extend accordingly.

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(2) An Order in Council under this section may be 25 varied or revoked by a subsequent order.

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17.--(1) Any funds for the time being vested in the Transfer of Accountant-General of the Supreme Court for and on funds in behalf of the Supreme Court and held by him in trust court to for any charity subject to the jurisdiction of the Charity Charity and 30 Commissioners or of the Board of Education, or in trust tical Comfor any ecclesiastical corporation in the Church in missioners England may, if the Lord Chancellor, on an application made in that behalf to the Accountant-General, as the case may be, either by the Charity Commissioners or the 35 Ecclesiastical Commissioners, thinks fit so to direct, be transferred to the Official Trustees of Charitable Funds or the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, as the case may be; and any funds transferred under any such order shall be vested in and held by the Official Trustees of Charitable 40 Funds or the Ecclesiastical Commissioners respectively in trust for the charity or ecclesiastical corporation upon the trusts upon which the funds were held before the transfer.

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14 & 15 Vict. c. 104.

Amendment

Infants Act,

(2) Notwithstanding anything in the principal Act or in any rule or order made thereunder no fees shall be payable under that Act or any such rule or order in respect of a transfer of funds made under this section. (3) In this section

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The expression "ecclesiastical corporation" means
any ecclesiastical corporation within the mean-
ing of the Episcopal and Capitular Estates
Act, 1851, and includes the incumbent of a
benefice:
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The expression "benefice" means a benefice with
or without cure of souls, and includes
rectories and vicarages, perpetual curacies
and endowed public chapels, parochial
chapelries and chapelries or districts belong- 15
ing or reputed to belong or annexed or
reputed to be annexed to any church or
chapel.

18. The powers of a court under section five of the of Guardian- Guardianship of Infants Act, 1886, as amended by the 20 ship of Guardianship of Infants Act, 1925, to make orders regarding the custody of an infant and the right of access thereto of either parent, may be exercised upon the application of the father of an infant in like manner as those powers may be exercised upon the application 25 of the mother of the infant.

1886. 49 & 50

Vict. c. 27.

15 & 16

Geo. 5. c. 45.

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19. Section one hundred and fifty-four of the County Courts Act, 1888 (which regulates the sale of goods taken in execution), shall be amended by inserting therein after the words "put in possession by the bailiff the words "or may be safeguarded in such other manner as the high bailiff directs."

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[20. Subsection (3) of section four of the County Courts Act, 1924, shall have effect, and be deemed always to have had effect, as if for the proviso to the 35 said subsection there were substituted the following :—

"Provided that, if a registrar who was, immediately before his appointment as registrar, an assistant registrar or a civil servant, gives notice in the prescribed form within the pre- 40 scribed period of his desire to continue, in the

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case of an assistant registrar subject to the pro- A.D. 1928.
visions of this Act relating to the pensions of
persons in court service, or in the case of a civil
servant subject to the statutory provisions relating
to the pensions of civil servants, he shall, for the
purposes of pension, be deemed not to be a regis-
trar to whom this section applies, but to be a
person employed in court service or a civil servant,
as the case may be. 21

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21.-(1) The amendments specified in the second Minor column of Part I of the First Schedule to this Act amend(being amendments consequential on the provisions ments of 15 of this Act and amendments relating to matters of minor detail) shall be made in the provisions of the principal Act specified in the first column of that Part of that Schedule.

(2) The amendments specified in the second column 20 of Part II of the First Schedule to this Act (being minor amendments of the County Courts Act, 1888) shall be made in the provisions of that Act specified in the first column of that Part of that Schedule.

(3) The amendment specified in the second column 25 of Part III of the First Schedule to this Act (being a minor amendment of the Legitimacy Act, 1926) shall be made in the provisions of that Act specified in the first column of that Part of that Schedule.

15 & 16
Geo. 5. c. 49,
51 & 52 Vict.
c. 43, and

16 & 17 Vict.

c. 20.

22.-(1) This Act may be cited as the Administra- Short title, repeal, construc

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(2) The enactments set out in the Second Schedule tion and to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified printing. in the third column of that Schedule.

(3) This Act (except so much thereof as amends 35 Part II of the Administration of Justice Act, 1920, or amends the Guardianship of Infants Acts, 1886 and 1925,) shall not apply to Scotland.

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(4) This Act (except so much thereof as amends Part II of the Administration of Justice Act, 1920,) shall not apply to Northern Ireland.

(5) Every enactment and word which is directed by Parts I and II and this Part of this Act to be sub- 5 stituted for any portion of the principal Act shall form part of that Act in the place assigned to it by those Parts of this Act, and the principal Act shall be construed as if the said enactment or word had been enacted in the principal Act in the place so assigned 10 and had been enacted in lieu of the enactment or word for which it is substituted.

A copy of the principal Act with the amendments effected by Parts I and II and this Part of this Act shall be prepared and certified by the Clerk of the Parliaments 15 and deposited with the Rolls of Parliament, and His Majesty's printer shall print in accordance with the copy so certified all copies of the principal Act which are printed after the date on which those amendments respectively take effect.

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SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

PART I.

AMENDMENTS OF THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE (CONSOLIDATION) ACT, 1925.

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