New Zealand Legislation: Acts

19 Powers of High Court may be exercised by 1 or more Judges

• (1) Each Judge or any 2 or more Judges may in any part of New Zealand exercise all the powers of the Court, except such powers as may by any statute be required to be exercised by the full Court or by any specified number of Judges.

  (2) Subsection (1) of this section shall be read subject to the provisions of any enactment that provides for the appointment of persons other than Judges to sit with the Court or as members of the Court in respect of any specified proceedings or class of proceedings.

  Section 19(2) heading: amended, on 15 August 1991, by section 2 of the Judicature Amendment Act 1991 (1991 No 60).

  Section 19(2): inserted, on 1 April 1980, pursuant to section 12 of the Judicature Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 124).