--(1) Subject to the provisions of this rule, a master shall have power to transact all such business and exercise all such authority and jurisdiction as may be transacted or exercised by a judge in chambers except in respect of the following matters and proceedings, that is to say:
----(a) matters relating to criminal proceedings or to the liberty of the subject;
----(b) proceedings for the grant of an injunction or other order under section 23(5) of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Chap. 4:01) (hereinafter referred to as "the Act");
----(c) applications for judicial review or an application for a writ of habeas corpus;
----(d) applications for an order of committal in proceedings to which Part 53 applies;
----(e) appeals from registrars;
----(f) applications under section 34 of the Act for leave to institute legal proceedings;
----(g) proceedings in respect of which jurisdiction is given by any enactment specifically to a judge in chambers and in which the decision of the judge is final;
----(h) such business, authority and jurisdiction as the Chief Justice may from time to time direct to be transacted or exercised by a judge in person;
----(i) any other matter or proceeding which by any of these Rules is required to be heard only by a judge.
--(2) A master shall have power to grant an injunction-
----(a) in the terms agreed by the parties to the proceedings in which the injunction is sought; or
----(b) which is ancillary or incidental to a charging order under Part 49.
--(3) A master shall have power to make a stop order under Part 50.
--(4) A master shall have the power to make an order under Part 52 for the appointment of a receiver to obtain payment of the judgment debt from the income or capital assets of the judgment debtor and to grant an injunction if, and only so far as the injunction is ancillary or incidental to such an order.
--(5) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) it shall be lawful for a master in Tobago to make all such orders as can be made by the registrar under rule 2.4A(2).
--(6) A master may refer to a judge any matter which he thinks should be properly decided by a judge, and the judge may either dispose of the matter or refer it back to the master with such directions as he thinks fit.
Notes
Amended by Legal Notice 261 of 2005.
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