12. Whenever, by a general law or special act or a charter governing a city or town corporation, a jurisdiction respecting the hiring, suspension or dismissal of any officer or employee of a city or town, including, amongst others, a director of services, a manager, is assigned to a commission or board, judge or court other than a judge of the Provincial Court, such jurisdiction shall be exercised exclusively by the chief judge of the Provincial Court or the senior associate chief judge of the Provincial Court, according to their respective administrative jurisdictions, or by a judge of the Provincial Court designated by the one or the other, as the case may be.
R. S. 1964, c. 196, s. 12; 1965 (1st sess.), c. 17, s. 2; 1968, c. 17, s. 93; 1980, c. 11, s. 117.