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 When a position of regional chief judge becomes a vacant or when a regional chief judge is not present for the performance of duties, the Minister of Justice may designate any judge as a temporary substitute for the regional chief judge.

A regional chief judge shall be the same powers and duties as a chief judge, as specified in section 10 of the Charter of the Courts of Justice, and shall have the powers—

to order judges or judicial clerks to report about cases or report about other affairs of the courts under his jurisdiction;

to sit at every court under his jurisdiction for trying and adjudicating upon cases or, after inspecting the file of any case, to sign the judgment or express a dissenting opinion thereon;

to order, in the event of necessity, any judge of a court under his jurisdiction to go assist in the discharge of duties at another court temporarily, upon which a report shall be made to the Ministry of Justice with dispatch."

The following stipulations shall be inserted in the Charter of the Courts of Justice as section 13bis: