This Act may be cited as the Judicature Amendment Act, 1930, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Judicature Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

This Act shall come into force on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-one.

For the purposes of the principal Act there shall be a Rules Committee, to consist of—

The members of the Rules Committee, other than the Chief Justice and the Attorney-General, shall be appointed by the Chief Justice for a term not exceeding three years. Any such member may be reappointed, or may at any time resign his office by writing addressed to the Chief Justice.

The Governor-General in Council, with the concurrence of the Chief Justice and any four or more of the other members of the Rules Committee, of whom at least one shall be a Judge, may from time to time alter or revoke the rules contained in the Code of Civil Procedure set forth in the Second Schedule to the principal Act, or the Rules of the Court of Appeal set forth in the Third Schedule to the principal Act, or any of them, or any other rules of the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeal which are now or may hereafter be in force, and may also from time to time make such additional rules touching the practice and procedure of the said Courts in all causes and matters within the jurisdiction of such Courts as may be deemed advisable. All rules made under the authority of this section, including rules altered under such authority, shall be deemed to form part of the Code of Civil Procedure or the Rules of the Court of Appeal as if they had been set forth in the Second or Third Schedule to the principal Act, as the case may be.

In this Act the power to make rules of procedure includes the power to fix scales of fees and costs.

The foregoing provisions are in substitution for subsection two of section fifty-one, subsections two and three of section seventy-one, and section seventy-five of the principal Act, and those enactments are hereby accordingly repealed.

The power to make rules of procedure in relation to proceedings in the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeal conferred by the Acts mentioned in the Schedule hereto, or by any other Act, shall hereafter be exercised by the Governor-General in Council in the manner prescribed by section three of this Act, and not otherwise.