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s.6B
Appointment of judges and recorders may be retrospective
(1)
Subject to subsection (2), any appointment made under
section 6(1)
or
6A(1)
may be given effect from a date anterior to that of the Letters
Patent by which it is made.
(2)
Nothing in subsection (1) shall be deemed to authorize the discharge of any
judicial functions by any person so appointed before the date of the Letters Patent
or before the requirements of
section 17
of the Oaths and Declarations
Ordinance (
Cap. 11
) have been fulfilled.