(1) The appointment of
a person to act in the office of President does not affect the person’s
tenure of office as, or status as, a judge of the Supreme Court nor the
payment of the person’s salary or allowances as a judge nor any other
rights or privileges of the person as a judge.
(2) A person’s
service acting in the office of President is to be taken for all purposes to
be service in the person’s office of judge of the Supreme Court.
(3) Nothing in this
Act prevents a person who acts in the office of President from doing anything
in the person’s capacity as a judge of the Supreme Court.
(4) A person’s
resignation from acting in the office of President or the termination of a
person’s term of acting in the office of President does not of itself
affect the person’s office as a judge of the Supreme Court.