T-16 - Courts of Justice Act

Section 183 Disposition versions

2024-07-01

183. Municipal judges are appointed by the Government, by a commission under the Great Seal, during good behaviour.

Sections 87 to 88.1, 92.1 to 93.1, 95, 113, 118 to 121, 122 to 122.3, 127 and 129 to 134 apply, with the necessary modifications, to municipal judges and their appointment. Among the modifications, the functions devolved to the chief judge are exercised by the chief municipal judge with regard to the municipal judges.

Furthermore, section 118 is modified so that the reference to section 115 is replaced by a reference to section 199 with regard to municipal judges.

R. S. 1964, c. 20, s. 193; 1969, c. 21, s. 35; 1992, c. 61, s. 617; 2023, c. 31, s. 9.

1999-04-01

183. (Replaced).

R. S. 1964, c. 20, s. 193; 1969, c. 21, s. 35; 1992, c. 61, s. 617.

1977-12-31

183. Whenever it is impracticable for any justice of the peace to cause any person to be conveyed to the nearest house of detention, he may deliver the person so committed into the custody of the master or commander of any vessel proceeding to the chief-place of the district where such nearest house of detention is situate, or to the city of Québec; and such master or commander of a vessel may receive such person into his custody, and on his arrival at such chief-place or at the city of Québec, deliver him to the custody of the sheriff of the district in which the house of detention to which he was committed is situate, or of the district of Québec, as the case may be.

R. S. 1964, c. 20, s. 193; 1969, c. 21, s. 35.