Divisions of the court into Civil and Criminal

(1) The Court shall be divided into two divisions, namely, the Criminal Division and the Civil Division, and a reference in this Act or any other law to the Court shall, where the context requires, be read and construed as a reference to the appropriate of 1998. 19 (2) Subject to this Act and any Rules made thereunder, the Chief Justice may, after consultation with the Attorney General, assign a judge to a particular division of the Court for any specified period of time, and may likewise reassign a judge from one division to the other division of the Court. (3) Upon the commencement of this section, the criminal jurisdiction (including appellate criminal jurisdiction) vested in the Court shall be exercised by the Criminal Division of the Court, and jurisdiction in all other matters shall be exercised by the Civil Division of the Court. (4) Nothing in this section shall prohibit or restrict any judge to hear, determine and dispose of any cause or matter which began before the commencement of this section. (5) The Attorney-General may by Order published in the Gazette, alter the number of divisions of the Court and specify the jurisdiction of each division of the Court after such alteration.