Judges' Salaries and Pensions Act Amendment Act 1972 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

JUDGES' SALARIES AND

PENSIONS.

No. 18 of 1972.

AN ACT to amend the Judges' Salaries and Pensions

Act, 1950-1970.

[Assented to 26th May, 1972.]

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' nNigteo„.

Salaries and Pensions Act Amendment Act, 1972.

(2)	In this Act the Judges' Salaries and Pensions voi. 17	Re p
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Act, 1950-1970, is referred to as the principal Act.	Acts
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reprint 3rd August, 19 62

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act as amended bY Acts

may be cited as the Judges' Salaries and Pensions Nos. 32 of

1962, 47 of

Act, 1950-1972.

1964, 30 of1966, 26 of

1969 and 99

of 1070.

No. 18.] Judges' Salaries and Pensions. [1972.

Section 813

added. 2. The principal Act is amended by adding after

section 8A a section as follows-

Increase of

rate of	8B. (1) The Treasurer, before the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and seventy-two and before each thirtieth day of June there- after, shall determine by instrument in writing under his hand that the rate of pension payable under this Act to
certain
pensions.

(a)	a Judge who retired on or before the thirty-first day of December in the year that is two years prior to the year in which the Treasurer so determines; and
(b)	the widow of a Judge who died or retired on or before the thirty-first day of December in the year that is two years prior to the year in which the Treasurer so determines,

shall be respectively increased in accordance with and as specified in the instrument making the determination.

(2) A determination made by the Treasurer

under subsection (1) of this section

(a)	has effect, for the purposes of this Act, according to its tenor;
(b)	may be so made as to have effect in addition to the operation of any deter- mination previously made under this section, or in substitution therefor; and
(c)	shall take effect, on and from the first monthly payment of the pension in the year in which the determination is made. .