City of Brisbane Town Planning Act Amendment Act 1968 (Qld)

355 ANNO SEPTIMO DECIMO ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE No. 47 of 1968 An Act to Amend The City of Brisbane Town Planning Acts 1964 to 1967 in certain particulars [ASSENTED TO 19TH DECEMBER, 1968] BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- 1. Short title and citation . (1) This Act may be cited as the City of Brisbane Town Planning Act Amendment Act 1968. (2) The City of Brisbane Town Planning Act of 1964 as subsequently amended from time to time is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. (3) The Principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the City of Brisbane Town Planning Act 1964-1968. 2. Repeal of and new s . 27. (I) Section 27 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section inserted in its stead:- " 27. The Local Government Court. (1) There shall be a Court called " The Local Government Court." (2) The Governor in Council shall, and may from time to time by notice published in the Gazette, notify the name of a Judge, or the names of Judges, of District Courts who will be the Judge or Judges to constitute the Court. (3) If for any reason whatsoever the conduct of the business of the Court, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, requires that such notification be made for a specified period only, then the Governor in Council may notify the name of a Judge of District Courts to constitute the Court for that specified period.

356 City of Brisbane Town Planning Act Amendment Act 1968, No. 47 (4) The Court shall be constituted by the Judge notified by name pursuant to subsection (2), or subsections (2) and (3), of this section or where more than one Judge is so notified, by one of those Judges. Any such judge so notified may constitute the Court notwithstanding that any other such judge is then also constituting the Court. (5) It shall be the duty of any Judge of District Courts whose name is so notified to constitute the Court while his name remains so notified or, as the case may be, until the expiration of the specified period for which he is so notified to constitute the Court. (6) For the purpose of enabling the Court to be constituted by a Judge of District Courts not being a Judge notified for a specified period (pursuant to subsections (2) and (3) hereof) the Governor in Council may appoint a Judge of District Courts in addition to the maximum number prescribed by The District Courts Act of 1967 and notwithstanding that the number of Judges of District Courts in office at the time of such additional appointment is such prescribed maximum number. (7) A Judge so notified to constitute the Court may be such additional appointee or any other Judge of District Courts. (8) The jurisdiction of a Judge of District Courts named to constitute the Court shall not be deemed thereby to be limited exclusively to the Court.". (2) A notification, pursuant to section 27 of the Principal Act, of the name of a Judge of District Courts to constitute The Local Government Court of force and effect immediately prior to the enactment of this Act shall continue to have the same operation and effect as if it had been made under the Principal Act as amended by this Act.