8(1)Each judge is hereby constituted a court of record and, throughout the Province, has all the powers, authority, criminal jurisdiction and quasi-criminal jurisdiction vested in a police magistrate or in two or more justices of the peace sitting and acting together, under any law or statute in force in the Province; and the powers, authority or jurisdiction are not affected by the place where an offence is committed or an act occurs.

8(2)Where in any Act or statute, whether public or private, in force in the Province the expression “justice”, “police magistrate”, “stipendiary magistrate”, “sitting magistrate”, “county magistrate”, “magistrate”, or “judge of a magistrates court” is used, it is deemed to include a judge appointed under this Act.

8(4)Every judge is ex officio a commissioner of oaths.