Section 16

in the High Court in Malaya, twelve; and

in the High Court in Borneo, eight; and

in the High Court in Singapore, eight.

Any person qualified for appointment as a judge of a

High Court may sit as a judge of that court, if designated for the purpose (as occasion requires) in accordance with

Article 122b.

For the despatch of business of the High Court in Borneo in an area in which a judge of the court is not for the time being available to attend to business of the court, the Yang di-Pertuan

Agong acting on the advice of the Lord President of the Federal

Court, or for an area in either State the Governor of the State acting on the advice of the Chief Justice of the court, may by order appoint to be judicial commissioner in that area for such period or for such purposes as may be specified in the order an advocate or person professionally qualified to be admitted an advocate of the court.

Subject to any limitations or conditions imposed by the order appointing him, a judicial commissioner shall have power, in the area for which he is appointed, to perform such functions of a judge of the High Court in Borneo as appear to him to require to be performed without delay; and anything done by a judicial commissioner when acting in accordance with his appointment shall have the same validity and effect as if done by a judge of that court, and in respect thereof he shall have the same powers and enjoy the same immunities as if he had been a judge of that court.

Act 26/1963

Appointment of judges of Federal Court and of High Courts

(Article 122b)