(1) The appointment of
a person as a Deputy President does not affect the person’s tenure of
office as, or status as, a Judge of the District Court nor the payment of the
person’s salary or allowances as a Judge nor any other rights or
privileges of the person as a Judge.
(2) A person’s
service in an office of Deputy President is to be taken for all purposes to be
service in the person’s office of Judge of the District Court.
(3) Nothing in this
Act prevents a person who holds office as a Deputy President from doing
anything in the person’s capacity as a Judge of the District Court.
(4) A person’s
resignation from office as a Deputy President or the termination of a
person’s term of office as a Deputy President does not affect the
person’s office as a Judge of the District Court.