(1) A reference in any other Act or in any regulation, rule, local law, by-law or instrument made under any other Act in force after the coming into operation of this Act, to a Court of Session, the Chairman thereof, or any officer thereof, shall be read as a reference to the Court, a District Court Judge, or the corresponding officer of the Court, as the case requires.

(2) The provisions of the Justices Act 1902, except sections 39 and 115 and Part VIII thereof, apply with such modifications as circumstances require, to the Court as a court of criminal jurisdiction, and to the Court, a District Court Judge and the Registrar and other officers of the Court as those provisions apply to the Supreme Court, a Judge thereof and to the corresponding officers of the Supreme Court.

(3) The Court is a court within the meaning of the term }Court~ in the Evidence Act 1906, and the Suitors' Fund Act 1964, and the provisions thereof apply, with such modifications as circumstances require, to the Court, a District Court Judge and any officer of the Court.

[(4) repealed]

(5) Unless the context otherwise requires, a reference in any other Act or in any regulation, rule, local law, by-law, notice, proclamation or other statutory instrument made, published or in force under this Act or any other Act to the Chairman, or Chairman of Judges, of the District Court shall be read and construed as a reference to the Chief Judge.

[Section 5 amended by No. 14 of 1970 s.4; No. 40 of 1972 s.4; No. 122 of 1984 s.5; No. 14 of 1996 s.4; No. 23 of 2002 s. 13.]