Judges Pensions (India and Burma) Act 1948

7 Interpretation.

(1) In this Act, except so far as the context otherwise requires—

• " European " means a person who, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, would, under the practice of the Secretary of State prevailing before the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, for the purpose of deciding whether a person was entitled to sterling overseas pay, have fallen to have been treated as being of non-Asiatic domicile ;

• " High Court in British India " means any of the courts which, at any time before the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, were High Courts in British India for the purposes of chapter 11 of Part IX of the [26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8 c. 2.] Government of India Act, 1935;

• " Chartered High Court " means a High Court in British India, other than a Chief Court or the" Court of a Judicial Commissioner;

• " Judge " includes a chief justice, an acting chief justice, an acting judge and an additional judge.

(2) References in this Act to the retiring of a person include references to the coming to an end of his appointment as an acting judge or an additional judge without his receiving any further appointment as a judge.

(3) References in this Act to the Government of India (High Court Judges) Order, 1937, are references to that Order as in force immediately before the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven.

(4) References in this Act to the Government of Burma (High Court Judges) Order, 1937, are references to that Order as in force immediately before the fourth day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-eight.