Closure of the Courts of Justice (Amendment) Order, 2020

L.N. 97 of 2020

PUBLIC HEATH ACT

(CAP. 465)

Closure of the Courts of Justice (Amendment) Order, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 27(c) of the

Public Health Act, the Superintendent of Public Health has made the

following order:-

The title of this order is the Closure of the Courts of Justice Citation.

(Amendment) Order, 2020, and this order shall be read and construed

as one with the Closure of the Courts of Justice Order, hereinafter S.L. 465. 19.

referred to as the "principal order".

In this order, unless the contents otherwise require, words

and expressions defined in the principal order shall have the same

meaning as assigned to them in the principal order.

In article 2 of the principal order, the definition "court" shall Amends article

2 of the

be substituted by the following

principal order.

" "designated court" means any of the courts of justice, that

is the superior courts and the inferior courts including appellate

courts irrespective of their competence or jurisdiction, and

includes also any tribunal established by law which operates

from the building of the Courts of Justice, and any boards,

commissions, committees or other entities which operate from

the building of the Courts of Justice before which any

proceedings are heard or procedures undertaken which are

subject to legal, judicial or administrative time limits for filing

any claims, defences or other acts

Provided that the tribunals, boards, commissions,

committees or other entities which operate from the building of

the Courts of Justice shall include the

(a)

Industrial Tribunal;

(b)

Employment Commission;

(c) Committee

of

Inquiry

(Deprivation

of

Citizenship);

(d)

Partition of Inheritances Tribunal; and

(e) Information and Data Protection Appeals

Tribunal.".

In article 3 of the principal order, the word "court" shall be

substituted by the words "designated court".

Immediately after article 3 of the principal order, there shall

be added the following new articles

4. Any legal, judicial or administrative time-

"Suspension of

limit for the filing of any acts before the court following

administrative

the conclusion of any proceedings before any Tribunal,

board, commission, committee or other entity which does

not operate from the building of the Courts of Justice,

shall be suspended for a period of twenty (20) days from

the lifting of the repeal of this order by the

Superintendent.

5. The suspension of the time limits as in force

prior to the coming into force of the Closure of the Courts

2020. of Justice (Amendment) Order, 2020 in that it concerns

tribunals, boards, commissions, committees and other

entities which are not operating in the building of the

Courts of Justice shall remain in force for five (5) days

from the coming into force of this amending order.".

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