Appointment of Commissioners and their powers

(1) The Court may appoint, by an instrument or instruments under the seal of the Court, the requisite number of fit and proper persons to be commissioners of the Court for taking affidavits and declarations in any cause or matter and, when authorised thereto by a special order of the court or judge, for taking the examination of witnesses or receiving production of documents. (2) Any appointment made under this section may at any time be cancelled by the Court by an instrument under the seal (3) Any order of the Court or a judge for the attendance and examination of witnesses or production of documents before a commissioner within the jurisdiction of the Court may be enforced in the same manner as an order to attend and be examined or produce documents before the Court. 18 (4) Subject to any special directions of the Court, a commissioner, when and so far as necessary for performing any duty which he is authorised to perform, shall be deemed to have and may exercise the incidental powers of a judge. (5) Every commissioner shall be subject to the order and direction of the Court as fully as any other officer of the Court, and every proceeding before a commissioner shall be subject to the direction and control of the Court. (6) No action shall be brought against a commissioner in respect of any act or order bona fide done or made by him in the execution or supposed execution of the jurisdiction and powers vested in him, but every act or order, if in excess of that jurisdiction and those powers, shall be liable to be altered, amended, reversed or set aside on summary application to the