Section 60

No person shall be appointed to be a Sessions Court Judge unless he is a member of the Judicial and Legal Service of the Federation:

Provided that this section shall not prevent the appointment of a person to act temporarily as a Sessions Court Judge.

Transfer of powers to Sessions Courts Judges

*61. Subject to the provisions and limitations contained in this Act, all powers, duties and functions which, by any written law in force in

Peninsular Malaysia or any part thereof at the date of the commencement of this Act, or by any law passed or made before the commencement of this Act and coming into force after such commencement in Peninsular Malaysia or any part thereof, were vested in or conferred or imposed upon, or expressed to be vested in, conferred or imposed upon or which would, if this Act had not been passed, have been vested in or conferred or imposed upon a District

Judge, Magistrate of any description or Coroner of Peninsular

Malaysia shall, without prejudice to section 80, be vested in, conferred and imposed upon a Sessions Court Judge, in the case of a law in force at the date of the commencement of this Act, upon and after that date, and in the case of a law coming into force after the commencement of this Act upon and after the date of the coming into force of that law.

*NOTE—For application in the States of Sabah and Sarawak–see P.U. (A) 357/1980.

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Nature of business at any sitting