The Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) (Revision) 1980

Jurisdiction of masters

11.—(1) A master shall have power to transact all such business and exercise all such jurisdiction as may be transacted and 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;

(b) matters relating to the liberty of the subject;

(c) applications to review any taxation of costs.

(d) applications under section 32 of the Act for leave to institute or continue legal proceedings;

(e) applications for approval of transactions under the inherent jurisdiction of the court;

(f) the granting of an injunction, except in the terms agreed by the parties to the proceedings in which the injunction is sought;

(g) application to sanction a compromise, arrangement or transaction on behalf of a person under disability;

(h) applications concerning charities;

(i) applications under section 40 of the Trustee Act (Northern Ireland) 1958(1) for the appointment of a trustee in substitution for an existing trustee without his consent;

(j) applications to authorise transactions relating to trust property under section 56 of the Trustee Act (Northern Ireland) 1958;

(k) applications to vary trusts under section 57 of the Trustee Act (Northern Ireland) 1958;

(l) applications by trustees to be relieved from personal liability under section 61 of the Trustee Act (Northern Ireland) 1958;

(m) applications under section 111(2) of the Mental Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1961(2) to bring proceedings against a person;

(n) any other matter or proceeding which by any of these Rules or under any general or special directions of the Lord Chief Justice or, in the case of the Master (Chancery) or the Master (Bankruptcy), the Chancery Judge, is required to be heard only by a judge.

(2) Where an originating summons raises for the determination of the Court a question as to the construction of a document or a question of law, nothing in paragraph (1) shall authorise a master to determine that question.

(1)

1958 c. 23 (N.I.)

(2)

1961 c. 15 (N.I.)