112. The Gouvernement may appoint a Chief Judge of the Social Welfare Court with residence at Québec or Montréal as it shall decide.
It may also appoint an Associate Chief Judge of the Social Welfare Court with residence at Montréal when the Chief Judge resides at Québec, and at Québec when the Chief Judge resides at Montréal.
The administrative jurisdiction of the judge acting as chief judge at Québec shall extend to the judicial districts enumerated in section 25, and that of the judge acting as chief judge in Montréal, to the judicial districts enumerated in section 24.
The chief judge and the associate chief judge of the Social Welfare Court shall coordinate and apportion the work of the judges of such court.
The judges of such court shall be under the supervision of the chief judge and the associate chief judge and must comply with their orders and directives as regards the carrying out of their work.
When the Chief Judge of the Social Welfare Court or the Associate Chief Judge is temporarily prevented, by absence or illness, from exercising his administrative jurisdiction, the Gouvernement may authorize a judge of the Social Welfare Court to assume such jurisdiction temporarily. During such period of absence or illness, the judge so authorized shall exercise the functions of chief judge or associate chief judge and shall receive the same salary as is assigned by law to the Chief Judge or to the Associate Chief Judge.
R. S. 1964, c. 20, s. 104; 1974, c. 11, s. 30.