Judges’ Pensions Amendment Act 1979
No. 88 of 1979
An Act to amend the Judges’
Pensions Act 1968.
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short
title, &c.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Judges’
Pensions Amendment Act 1979.
(2) The Judges’ Pensions Act 1968 is in this Act referred to
as the Principal Act.
Commencement
2. This Act shall come into
operation on the date fixed under section 2 of the Northern Territory
Supreme Court (Repeal) Act 1979.
Interpretation
3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is
amended—
(a) by omitting “an internal
Territory” from paragraph (a) of the definition of “Judge” in sub-section (1)
and substituting “the Australian Capital Territory”; and
(b) by inserting after paragraph
(a) of the definition of “prior judicial service” in sub-section (1) the
following paragraph:
“(ab) service as a Judge or acting
Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, including that Court as
in existence at any time before the commencement of the Northern Territory
Supreme Court (Repeal) Act 1979;”.
Transitional
4. Where, immediately before the
commencement of this Act, any benefit was payable under the Principal Act by
reason of a person having been a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern
Territory, the Principal Act continues to apply to and in respect of the person
as if the amendment of that Act by paragraph 3(a) had not been made.