District Court Judges and Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates Salaries Act 1883 No 8a (NSW)

No. XVI.

An Act to increase the Salaries of and to provide pensions for the District Court Judges and the Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates. [14th Aprit, 1883.]

be One thousand five hundred pounds per annum.

should he commensurate with the judicial business now conducted in WH E R E A S it is expedient that the salaries of the District Court Judges and the Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates

their respective Courts and with any extension of their respective jurisdictions which may hereafter be effected and that provision should be made for granting Pensions to the said Judges and Chief Com­ missioner after a certain period of service or on permanent disability Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :—

1. From and after the first day of January in the year one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-three the salary of every District
Court Judge and of the Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates shall

2. Every District Court Judge and the Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates on his retirement after twenty years' service in the Colony as such Judge or Commissioner or on permanent disability or infirmity shall be entitled to a pension of one-half of his actual salary at the time of such retirement Provided always that any period during which a District Court Judge shall have served as Judge of any superior Court or as Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates or as Acting Judge of any District Court shall be computed as portion of the service of such District Court Judge for the purposes of this section And all such pensions shall be charged upon and be payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

3. Nothing in this Act which may be cited as the " District

Court Judges and Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates Salaries Act 1883 " shall be construed to affect the provisions of the twenty- ninth section of the Act twenty-second Victoria number eighteen or the Act twenty-fourth Victoria number twenty otherwise than as herein expressly enacted.