Section 5.1 — Federal Courts Act: Constitution of Federal Court

The Federal Court consists of a chief justice called the Chief Justice of the Federal Court, who is the president of the Federal Court, an associate chief justice called the Associate Chief Justice of the Federal Court and 39 other judges. For each office of judge of the Federal Court, there is an additional office of supernumerary judge that a judge of the Federal Court may elect under the Judges Act to hold. For each of the offices of Chief Justice of the Federal Court and Associate Chief Justice of the Federal Court, there is an additional office of judge that the Chief Justice and Associate Chief Justice may elect under the Judges Act to hold. Every judge of the Federal Court of Appeal is, by virtue of that office, a judge of the Federal Court and has all the jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court.