Labour Tribunal Ordinance

(1)
The Chief Justice may appoint any person who is eligible under
section 4A
to be appointed as a presiding officer to be a deputy presiding officer for such period and on such terms as he thinks fit.
(Amended
10 of 2005 s. 141
)
(2)
Subject to the terms of appointment, a deputy presiding officer shall, during the period for which he is appointed, have all the jurisdiction, powers and privileges, and perform all the duties of a presiding officer and any reference in any law to a presiding officer shall be construed accordingly.
(3)
Every appointment made in accordance with this section may be terminated by the Chief Justice at any time.
(4)
Where the hearing of any proceedings before a deputy presiding officer is adjourned or where the determination is reserved therein or the award or order is subject to review, the deputy presiding officer shall have power to resume the hearing and determine the proceedings or to deliver as the determination of the Tribunal the determination which he has reserved or to review the award or order which he has made, notwithstanding that before the hearing is resumed or determination is delivered or the review is disposed of, his appointment has expired or has been terminated.
(5)
For the purposes of subsection (4), the power of a deputy presiding officer to deliver a determination in a resumed hearing includes the power of awarding costs and the making of any order ancillary to or consequential upon the award of costs.