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8Power for appellate court to intervene in proceedings in cases of delay

In section 7 of the 1963 Measure (jurisdiction of Arches and Chancery Courts), at the end insert—

(4)Each of the appellate courts mentioned in subsection (1) of this section also has jurisdiction, either on its own motion or on the application of any party to proceedings pending in a consistory court, to give directions as to the further conduct of those proceedings if it considers that there has been inordinate delay in the conduct of the proceedings or it is otherwise in the interests of justice.

(5)Subsection (4) enables any directions to be given which could have been given by the chancellor.