Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004C02023:section:44a
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004C02023
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 44A
Character Range: 48649–49438

44A  Reserved judgments
 (1) Where any proceeding, after being fully heard before a Court constituted by not less than 3 Judges sitting together, is ordered to stand for judgment, it is not necessary that all the Judges before whom it was heard be present together in Court to declare their opinions on the matter to which the proceedings relate, but the opinion of any one of them may be reduced to writing and may be made public by any other of them at any subsequent sitting of the Court at which judgment in the proceeding is delivered.
 (2) In any such case the question shall be decided in the same manner, and the judgment of the Court has the same force and effect, as if the Judge whose opinion is so made public had been present in court and had declared his opinion in person.