Judges' Salaries and Pensions Act Amendment Act 1953 (WA)

JUDGES' SALARIES AND PENSIONS.

2° Elizabeth II., No. LXX.

No. 70 of 1953.

AN ACT to amend the Judges' Salaries and Pensions

Act, 1950

[Assented to 9th January, 1954.]

BE it enacted, by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Judges' Micretittron.

Salaries and Pensions Act Amendment Act, 1953.

(2) In this Act the Judges' Salaries and Pensions

Act, 1950,

Act No. 35 of 1950,

is referred to as the principal Act.

No. 70.] Judges' Salaries and Pensions. [1953.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Judges' Salaries and Pensions Act, 1950-1953.

S. 5

amended. 2. Section five of the principal Act is amended

(a)	by substituting for the passage, "first day of September, 1950" in lines one and two of subsection (1) the words, "first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-four";
(b)	by adding after the word, "thousand" in line four of subsection (1) the words, "three hundred";
(c)	by substituting for the word, "six" in line seven of subsection (1) the word, "nine"; and
(d)	by adding after subsection (1) the following subsection:

(la) (a) In this subsection

"salary rate" means the salary rate per annum of three thousand three hundred pounds or two thousand nine hundred pounds, as the case may be;

Cf. NO. 57 of

1912 as	"variations" means variations in the amount of the basic wage as determined from time to time on or after the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-four under section one hundred and twenty-seven of the Industrial Arbitration Act, 1912.
amended ss.
127 and 164.

(b) The Governor shall cause adjust- ments to be made to the salary rate by multiples of twenty pounds as and when the variations are to an extent of twenty pounds or a multiple of twenty pounds, but so that the salary rate is not reduced. ;

(e) and by adding after the word, "salaries" in line one of subsection (2) the words, "and adjustments".