[H.L.] 1. Qualification of probate and district probate regis- trars, and tenure, &c. of district probate registrars. 2. Temporary provision as to retiring allowances of GENERAL AMENDMENTS OF 15 & 16 GEO. 5. c. 49. 6. Jurisdiction of Divisions of High Court. 7. Power of Lord Chancellor to direct that business shall cease to be assigned to special judge. 8. Amendment of s. 99 of principal Act. 9. Amendment of s. 162 of principal Act. 10. Amendment of s. 169 of principal Act. JUDICIAL COMMITTEE. 15. Tenure of office, precedence and qualification of Vice-Chancellor of County Palatine of Lancaster. Transfer of funds in court to Charity and Ecclesias- 18. Amendment of Guardianship of Infants Act, 1886. 19. Amendment as to custody of goods taken in The words enclosed in brackets and underlined were omitted by the Lords to avoid questions of privilege.] A BILL INTITULED An Act to amend the provisions of the Supreme A.D. 1928. Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, relating to probate registrars and registries, and certain other matters, and to amend the law with respect to the constitution of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and otherwise with respect to the administration of justice and matters connected therewith. E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 5 as follows: PART I. AMENDMENTS OF 15 & 16 GEO. 5. c. 49, AS TO PROBATE REGISTRARS AND REGISTRIES. 1. (1) The following subsection shall be substituted Qualifica10 for subsection (3) of section one hundred and twenty-six tion of proof the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, bate and 1925 (in this Act referred to as "the principal Act"): 15 66 (3) A person shall not— district probate registrars, and tenure, (a) be qualified to be appointed a probate &c. of registrar, unless he is a practising barrister district or solicitor of not less than ten years' probate standing, or a district probate registrar of registrars. (2) In Part I. of the Third Schedule to the principal Act after the words "Registrar, Probate Division" there shall be added the words "(not including a district probate registrar)," and the principal Act shall be deemed as from the commencement thereof to have had effect as 15 if the said words had been contained therein as originally enacted. (3) The following subsection shall be added at the end of section one hundred and nineteen of the principal Act: 20 "(3) This section shall in relation to a district probate registrar have effect as if for the words 'if appointed since the commencement of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1884,' there were substituted the words 'if appointed 25 since the first day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight'. (4) The following new section shall be inserted after section one hundred and twenty-eight of the principal Act: "128A.-(1) A district probate registrar shall be an officer of the Supreme Court, and (except in the case of a part-time or provisional registrar) shall be deemed for all purposes to be a permanent civil servant of the State. 30 35 (2) If in any case it appears to the President of the Probate Division that the business to be performed in any district probate registry is not such as to require the services of a whole-time registrar, he may, notwithstanding anything in 40 this Act, appoint a person to act as part-time registrar, [and a person so appointed shall be entitled to a salary under this Part of this Act, |