Judges' Salaries and Pensions Act Amendment Act 1955 (WA)

1955.1 Judges' Salaries and Pensions. [No. 57.

JUDGES' SALARIES AND PENSIONS.

4° Elizabeth II., No. LVII.

No. 57 of 1955.

AN ACT to amend the Judges' Salaries and

Pensions Act, 1950-1953.

[Assented to 9th December, 1955.]

RE it enacted, by the Queen's Most Excellent

Majesty, 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' Lhaliatew

Salaries and Pensions Act Amendment Act, 1955.

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

Act, 1950-1953,

Act No. 35 of 1950 as amended by Act. No. 70 of 1953,

is referred to as the principal Act.

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Judges' Salaries and Pensions Act, 1950-1955.

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emended

2. Section five of the principal Act is amended

Cf. No. 10 of

1953. s. 2.

(a)	by substituting for the passage, "first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-four," in lines one and two of subsec- tion (1), the passage, "first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-five";
(b)	by substituting for the words, "three thousand three hundred pounds" in line four of subsection (1), the words, "four thousand one hundred and fifty pounds";
(c)	by substituting for the words, "two thousand nine hundred pounds" in line seven of subsection (1), the words, "three thousand six hundred and fifty pounds in

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of 1935.	the case of the senior of those Judges, whose
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seniority.	office shall be known as that of Senior Puisne Judge; and three thousand five hundred pounds in the case of each of the others of those Judges"; and
Cf. No. 70

of 1953,	(d)	by adding after subsection (la) the follow- (lb) In order that remuneration pre- scribed by this Act for members of the Judiciary may be adjusted so as to con- form relatively to adjustments of remun- eration by marginal allowances granted to persons serving the State, the following adjustments, in addition to any other remuneration prescribed by this Act, are hereby granted in respect of the period commencing on the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand nine hundred
a.2 (d).	ing subsections:—

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and fifty-four and ending on the thirtieth day of November, one thousand nine hun- dred and fifty-five, in the ratio which the tenure of office of member of the Judiciary during that period, bears to the whole of the period, namely

(a)	Chief Justice, at the rate of five hundred and forty pounds per annum;
(b)	Judges other than the Chief Justice, at the rate of five hun- dred pounds per annum.

(1c) For the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to pensions, the salary of any Judge retiring after the twenty- fourth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-four, and before the first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-five, shall be deemed to be three thousand four hun- dred pounds.

3. The Schedule to the principal Act is amended Tie,laeendeiVg.

by deleting the following passage

(b) Substitute for the figures "29,400" in line fourteen of the Fourth Schedule the figures,

"17,600."

in the second column.