Section 51June 17, 1948, Sec./Art. 51

Detail of judge to another district or province. - Whenever a judge stationed in any province or branch of a court in a province should certify to the Secretary of Justice that the condition of the docket in his court is such as to require the assistance of an additional judge, or when there is any vacancy in any court or branch of a court in a province, and there is no judge-at-large available to be assigned to said court, the Secretary of Justice may, in the interest of justice, and for a period of not more than three months, assign any judge of any other court or province within the same judicial district, whose docket permits his temporary absence from said court, to hold sessions in the court needing such assistance, or where such vacancy exists.

No district judge shall be assigned to hold sessions in a province other than that to which he is appointed without the approval of the Supreme Court being first had and obtained.