Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 447

447. (1) Where the judge has been objected to, or has abstained from sitting, another judge shall be surrogated by th e President of Malta in his stead. (2) If every one of the judges is, for any of the causes referre d to in the last preceding article, precluded from sitting, it sh all be lawful for the President of Ma lta to surrogate acting judges. Oath of office by judge surrogate. Cap. 12. (3) An acting judge shall, on being surrogated, take the oaths prescribed in article 10 of the Code of Organization and Civil Procedure . Grounds of challenge to apply to judge surrogate. (4) A judge surrogate may also be objected to for any of the said causes. Reading out of indictment to accused. Substituted by: LIII.1981.5.