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Temporary discharge of duties of District Judge. – In the event of the death of the District Judge, or of his being incapacitated by illness or otherwise for the performance of his duties or of his absence from the station in which his Court is held, the senior Additional District Judge or the Additional District Judge, as the case be or if there is no Additional District Judge, the senior Subordinate Judge in the station in which his Court is held shall, without interruption to his ordinary duties, assume charge of the District Judge’s Office, and shall discharge such of the current duties thereof as are connected with the filing of suits and appeals, the execution of processes and the like, and shall continue in charge of the office until the same is resumed or assumed by an officer duly appointed thereto.