Article 108 of Code of Civil Procedure

The Registry Department must submit the recusal statement to the President of the Court. If the person whose recusal is sought is the President, the statement shall be submitted to the person acting in his place. The person to whom the statement is submitted must immediately acquaint the judge whose recusal is sought with the statement. The judge must reply in writing to the facts and grounds of recusal within the two working days following his review of it. If he does not reply within this period, or admits the grounds of recusal, and those grounds are legally valid for recusal, the President of the Court shall issue an order for him to step aside. If the judge replies to the grounds of recusal and does not admit a ground legally valid for his recusal, the person to whom the statement was submitted shall designate 1( Replaced pursuant to Decree-Law No. 133 of 25 20. the circuit that shall hear the recusal application and fix a date for its urgent hearing before it. The Registry Department must notify the recusal applicant and the judge of that date, and the remaining litigants in the original action shall also be notified, so that they may submit any recusal applications they may have pursuant to the preceding Article. The said circuit must investigate the recusal application in chambers and then rule after hearing the statements of the recusal applicant and the judge’s observations where appropriate or if he so requests. In investigating the recusal application, the judge may not be interrogated or required to take an oath. Where recusal applications are submitted before the close of pleadings in the first recusal application, the President of the Court, or the person acting in his place, as the case may be, must refer these applications to the same circuit before which that application is pending, to rule on all of them in a single judgment. The proceedings on the recusal application must continue and it must be determined even if its applicant decides to abandon it. Judgment on the recusal application shall be delivered in a public hearing within a period not exceeding one month from the date of its hearing before that circuit. )1(