12. Power to appoint Joint Judges.—The Governor of Bombay in Council may, with the previous
sanction of the Governor General of India in Council, appoint in any District a Joint Judge who shall be
invested with co-extensive powers and a concurrent jurisdiction with the District Judge, except that he
shall not keep a file of civil suits and shall transact such civil business only as he may receive from the
District Judge, or as may have been referred to the Joint Judge by order of the High Court.
When the appointment of a Joint Judge shall have been sanctioned by the Governor General of India
in Council, the Governor of Bombay in Council may, so long as such sanction continues in force, appoint
a successor to such Joint Judge in case his office becomes vacant, or transfer such Joint Judge from one
District to another; and in such other District the Joint Judge so transferred shall have the same powers as
he had in the former District.
13. Enactments applying to District Judge to apply to Joint Judge. Joint Judge’s seal.—All
Regulations and Acts now or hereafter in force and applying to a District Judge shall be deemed to apply
also to the Joint Judge; and the seal of the Joint Judge shall be the same as is used by the District Judge.