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Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka · 2023 Revised Edition · Chapter XV · The Judiciary

111A. Commissioners of the High Court

Unofficial copy, with amendments up to 31 Oct 2022. Later amendments are not included. Check the official text before you rely on it.

101[(1) Where the Minister in charge of the subject of Justice represents to the President that it is expedient that the number of the Judges exercising the jurisdiction and powers of the High Court in any judicial zone should be temporarily increased, 102[the President may, on the recommendation of the Judicial Service

Commission, by warrant, appoint], one or more

Commissioners of the High Court to exercise the jurisdiction and powers of the High Court within such judicial zone as is specified in the warrant of appointment of such Commissioner of the High Court.

(2)

Every Commissioner of the High Court appointed under paragraph (1) shall hold office for the period specified in his warrant of appointment and shall be removable, and be subject to disciplinary control, by the

President, on the recommendation of the Judicial Service

Commission.

(3)

Every Commissioner of the High Court appointed under paragraph (1) may, during his tenure of office, exercise, according to law, such jurisdiction and powers as is, or are, vested or ordained in the High Court by

Parliament and shall be invested with all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities (except such rights and privileges as relate to tenure of office) of a Judge of the High Court, and for this purpose, a reference to a “Judge of the High

Court” in the Constitution or other written law shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be deemed to include a reference to a “Commissioner of the High Court”.]

100 - Inserted by the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution Sec. 12(2).

101 - Inserted by the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution Sec. 4.

102 - Substituted by the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution Sec. 13.

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