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New Zealand: Acts affecting Native Lands, 1886, 1888-91 and 1894-95

(1.) General

(1.) General.

16.Appointment of sittings. The Court shall sit at such times and places as the Minister by notice, given in such manner as may be prescribed, page 9shall appoifit. Before the time appointed for the commencement of a sitting, the Minister may order such sitting Adjournment. to be adjourned to such time and place as be may think fit. After the commencement of a sitting,. the presiding Judge, or, in the absence of a Judge, any person for the time being acting as Clerk, may adjourn such sitting from time to time and from place to place, or may so adjourn any part or parts of the business notified to be dealt with at any such sitting, or adjourn the same respectively sine die.
17.Commencement of proceedings. The jurisdiction of the Court in any matter may be exercised on the written application of any person ciaiming an interest therein, and, in the course of the proceedings on any application, the Court may without rurther application, and upon such terms as to notice to parties and otherwise as the Court thinks fit, proceed to exercise any other part or parts of its jurisdiction which it may consider necessary or expedient to exercise; and the Court may in its discretion deal with the subject-matter of any application wholly or ia part or parts, and issue separate orders in respect of such part or parts, and any application may be dismissed or (with the consent of the Court) extended or amended or withdrawn wholly or in part; and the Court may, on the completion of any stage in any proceedings, make any interlocutory order which it may deem necessary or expedient.
18.Judge shall be assisted by Assessor in certain eases. A Judge sitting alone may exeroise all the powers of the Court, but in exereising jurisdiction under subsections one, two, four, five, or ten of section iourteen hereof shall be assisted by an Assessor, whose concurrence in any judgment or order shall not be necessary to the validity thereof
19.Change of Judge or Assessor. Proceedings may be continued before a Judge, or Judge and Assessor, other than the Judge or Judge and Assessor before whom they were commenced, or before the same Judge and another Assessor.
20.Appearance by counsel or agent. No person may appear or be assisted in Court by counsel or agent without the assent of the presiding Judge first obtained. Such assent may be at any time withdrawn.