(i) The presiding officer of a civil court shall not try any suit or other proceeding or hear any appeal, to which he is a party or l, in which he is personally interested.
r (2) No presiding officer shall hear an appeal from any judgment, decree, sentence or order passed or made by himself.
(3) Where any such suit, proceeding or appeal as is referred to in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) comes before any such officer, he shall transmit forthwith the record of such suit, proceeding or appeal, as the case may be, to the court to which he is immediately subordinate with the report of thje circumstances attending the reference,
(4) The superior court shall thereupon dispose of the case under section 24 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908.
(5) For the purposes of this section, the presiding officer of a court subject to the general control of the district judge shall be deemed to be immediately subordinate to the court of the district judge.
22. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Limitation Act, 1963, or any other law for the time being in force in the Islands, if i any period of limitation prescribed by the said Act or bu such law for any suit, appeal or application expires on any day during the monsoon period, then in computing the period of limitation for such suit, appeal or application, the period to the extent it has fallen within the monsoon period shall be excluded.
Explanation.—In this section "monsoon period" means the period of four months ending on the 15th September.
23. The ministerial officers of the district court shall be appointed by the district judge and the ministerial officers of the courts of subordinate judges and munsiffs shall be appointed by the district judge after consultation with the Administrator.
24. AH civil courts which are in existence in the Islands immediately before the commencement of this Regulation (hereinafter referred to as the existing civil courts), are hereby abolished.