Clause 20

Section 331 of the Code is hereby amended by deleting subsection (1) thereof and substituting therefor the following: —“(1) Whenever there is no Judge of the High Court present in Singapore in the execution of the duties of his office, and for the purpose of this section a Judge shall be deemed to be absent when illness prevents him from attending to his duties, the Registrar may, in urgent cases, make any of the orders mentioned in sections 325 and 329.”.