Judges' Salaries and Pensions Act Amendment Act 1966 (WA)

1966.] Judges' Salaries and Pensions. [No. 30.

JUDGES' SALARIES AND

PENSIONS.

No. 30 of 1966.

AN ACT to amend the Judges' Salaries and Pensions

Act, 1950-1964.

[Assented to 27th October, 1966.]

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'	Short title
and citation.

Salaries and Pensions Act Amendment Act, 1966.

(2) In this Act the Judges' Salaries and Pensions xv. 17

Act, 1950-1964, is referred to as the principal Act. Ahr.inted	Approved
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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act rec612ugust

may be cited as the Judges' Salaries and Pensions rcateaeg2by

Act, 1950-1966. 47 O9164Nad

No. 30.] Judges' Salaries and Pensions. [1966.

S. 5

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

(a) by repealing and re-enacting subsection (1) as follows

Judges'

salaries. (1) As from and including the first day of July, nineteen hundred and sixty- six, the rate of the annual salary payable to the Chief Justice of Western Australia shall be fifteen thousand four hundred dollars and the rate of the annual salary payable to each of the Judges, other than the Chief Justice of Western Australia shall be fourteen thousand dollars in the case of the senior of those Judges, whose office shall be known as that of Senior Puisne Judge, and thirteen thousand six hundred dollars in the case of each of the others of those Judges. ;

(b)	by substituting for the words, "three thousand four hundred pounds" in lines six and seven of subsection (1c), the words, "six thousand eight hundred dollars"; and
(c)	by substituting for the words, "five thousand two hundred and fifty pounds" in lines six and seven of subsection (1d), the words, "ten thousand five hundred dollars".

S. 9

amended. 3. Subsection (1) of section nine of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the words, "one pound" in line four the word, "two dollars".