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Any person who is a stipendiary magistrate or a metropolitan stipendiary magistrate immediately before the time when section 78 of this Act comes into force shall be treated as having been appointed to be a District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) at that time (unless he would have been required by reason of age to vacate his office at that time).