Clause 5

For the purposes of the administration of this Act, the President may, on the recommendation of the Chief Justice, appoint a Judge or Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court to be the Presiding Judge of the State Courts for such period as the Chief Justice may recommend.(2) Notwithstanding any other written law, the Presiding Judge of the State Courts may sit in any State Court and act as a judge (however described) thereof, in which case he shall have all the jurisdiction, power and privileges of such a judge.(3) A Judge or Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court may, during the period of his appointment as the Presiding Judge of the State Courts, continue to sit in the High Court or the Court of Appeal in accordance with the Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Cap. 322).(4) Any person appointed to be the Presiding Judge of the State Courts shall, although the period of his appointment as such has expired or his appointment as such has been revoked, in relation to any case heard by him as a judge (however described) of a State Court, continue to sit as such a judge for the purpose of giving judgment or otherwise.”.