Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1964 (Cth)

CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION.

 

No. 99 of 1964.

An Act relating to the Judges of the Commonwealth Industrial Court.

[Assented to 20th November, 1964.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1964.

(2.) The Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1961 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1964.

Commencement.

2.This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Constitution of Court.

3.Section ninety-eight of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (a)the word “three” and inserting in its stead the word “four”.

4.—(1.) After section one hundred and three of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—

Appointment of Judge to other judicial office.

“103a.—(1.) If a Judge accepts appointment—

(a) to a judicial office in any part of Her Majesty’s dominions outside the Commonwealth and the Territories of the Commonwealth, in pursuance of an arrangement made by the Governor-General with the person administering the government of that part of Her Majesty’s dominions; or

(b) to a judicial office in a Territory of the Commonwealth,

the acceptance of that appointment does not affect his office as a Judge of the Court.

 

“(2.) A Judge who accepts such an appointment shall be remunerated only with the salary that he receives as a Judge of the Court, but may be paid in respect of his expenses in travelling to discharge the duties of the office to which he has accepted appointment such sums, if any, as the Governor-General considers reasonable.

“(3.) For the purposes of section one hundred and one of this Act, where a Judge is absent from the Commonwealth by virtue of his acceptance of an appointment referred to in sub-section (1.) of this section, he shall be deemed to be absent on leave.”.

(2.) Section one hundred and three a of the Principal Act, as amended by this Act, applies, and shall be deemed to have at all times applied, in relation to the acceptance, before the commencement of this Act, by a Judge of the Commonwealth Industrial Court of appointment to a judicial office in a Territory of the Commonwealth.