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Appointment, duties, and salary of second assistant registrar.
4 Geo. 4. c. 61.
Regulations and duties of Masters’ officers.
Appointment in case all the Masters’ examiners refuse the office.
Right of succession in registrar's office preserved.
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41. There shall be attached to the said Court a second assistant registrar, who shall hold his office upon the same terms and with such powers in all respects as are provided by a Statute passed in the fourth year of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled “An Act for the better administration of justice in the Court of Chancery in Ireland,” in relation to the principal registrars of the said Court; and every such assistant registrar shall discharge such duties in connexion with the business of the said Court as shall be assigned to him by general order of the Court; and there shall be paid to every such assistant registrar the net yearly salary of eight hundred pounds, to be increased every year of service by the net annual sum of twenty-five pounds until the net yearly salary of such assistant registrar shall amount to the net yearly salary of one thousand pounds, but so that no such increase shall take place without a certificate of the Lord Chancellor to the like effect as is provided in the case of the chief and junior clerks to be appointed under this Act, which salary shall be paid free from all deductions, except in respect of income tax; [1]
and the Lord Chancellor shall tender to each of the Master's examiners whose office is abolished by this Act according to his seniority in office the option of accepting the said office of assistant registrar; and if such Master's examiner shall for one month after such option has been tendered, neglect or decline to avail himself thereof then the Lord Chancellor shall tender the like option to the examiner next in succession as aforesaid, and so toties quoties; and in case any of the said examiners shall avail himself of the said option,] the Lord Chancellor shall thereupon appoint such person to be an assistant registrar of the Court pursuant to this Act; and the Court shall have power, by general orders, to regulate the distribution of business among the officers of the said Masters, and to attach any officer at present attached to any Master in Ordinary whose office is by this Act abolished to any other Master, and in all respects to prescribe and regulate the duties of such officers; and in case all the Master's examiners shall neglect or decline to avail themselves of the said option, it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor to appoint the chief clerk or one of the other clerks in the registrar's office, or some fit or proper person, having such qualification as is herein-before prescribed in respect of persons to be appointed chief clerks of the Master of the Rolls and the Vice-Chancellor, to fill the office of assistant registrar of the said Court pursuant to this Act: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the right of succession of the officers in the registrar's office, as now established, to any office existing previous to the passing of this Act, and that from time to time when any vacancy shall occur in the said office of assistant registrar there shall be the like right of succession thereto in said officers as there now is to such existing offices.
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