9 Office of Land Purchase Trustee. U.K.

(1) The office of Land Purchase Trustee for Northern Ireland shall be held by such officer of the [F1 Court of Judicature] as may be designated by the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland [F2 or, if the Lord Chief Justice so directs, by the Registrar of Titles in Northern Ireland]:

Provided that the person who at the appointed day holds the said office shall, if he is then an officer of the [F1 Court of Judicature], be entitled to continue in office and shall be deemed to have been designated to hold the said office under this subsection.

(2) The salary of [F3 any officer of the [F1 Court of Judicature] designated to hold the said office] in respect of the period whilst he is the holder thereof shall be such as [F4 the Treasury] may determine.

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(5) The expenses of and incidental to the said office shall be paid as part of the expenses of the [F1 Court of Judicature].

(6) The power to make rules conferred by subsection (15) of section fifty-two of the Act of 1903 shall be transferred to, and be exercisable by, the Chancery Judge, acting with the consent of the Treasury.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Act substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 6; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)

F2 Words inserted by Northern Ireland Act 1947 (c. 37, SIF 29:3), Sch. 1

F3 Words substituted by Northern Ireland Act 1947 (c. 37, SIF 29:3), Sch. 1

F4 Words “the Treasury” stand by virtue of S.I. 1968/1656, 1971/2099 and 1981/1670

F5 S. 9(3) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1953 (c. 5), Sch. I

F6 S. 9(4) repealed by Judicature (N.I.) Act 1978 (c. 23, SIF 38), Sch. 7 Pt. I