Judicial Officers Amendment Act 1998 (NSW)
New South Wales
Judicial Officers Amendment Act
1998 No 9
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1 Name of Act 2 2 Commencement 2 3 Amendment of Judicial Officers Act 1986 No 100 2
Schedule 1 Amendments 3
New South Wales
Judicial Officers Amendment Act
1998 No 9
Act No 9, 1998
An Act to amend the Judicial Officers Act 1986 so as to provide for two additional community members of the Judicial Commission; and for other purposes. [Assented to 12 May 1998]
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The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:
1 Name of Act
This Act is the Judicial Officers Amendment Act 1998.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on a day to be appointed by proclamation.
3 Amendment of Judicial Officers Act 1986 No 100
The Judicial Officers Act 1986 is amended as set out in
Schedule 1.Judicial Officers Amendment Act 1998 No 9
Amendments Schedule 1 Schedule 1 Amendments
(Section 3)
[1] Section 5 The Commission
Omit “8” from section 5 (3). Insert instead “ 1 0 ” .
[2] Section 5 (3) (b)
Omit “2”. Insert instead “4”.
[3] Section 5 (5) (b)
Omit the paragraph. Insert instead:
(b) 3 are to be persons nominated following consultation by the Minister with the Chief Justice and who, in the opinion of the Minister, have high standing in the community.
[4] Section 56
Insert after section 55:
56 Savings and transitional provisions
Schedule 6 has effect.
[5] Schedule 2 Provisions relating to procedure of Commission
Omit “5” from clause 3. Insert instead “7”.
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Schedule 6 Savings and transitional provisions
Insert after Schedule 5:
Schedule 6 Savings and transitional provisions
(Section 56)
1 Regulations
The regulations may contain provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of the following Acts:
Judicial Officers Amendment Act 1998
Any such provision may, if the regulations so provide, take effect from the date of assent to the Act concerned or a later date.
from a date that is earlier than the date of its publication To the extent to which any such provision takes effect in the Gazette, the provision does not operate so as:
(a) to affect, in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State or an authority of the State), the rights of that person existing before the date of its publication, or (b) to impose liabilities on any person (other than the State or an authority of the State) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the date of its publication.
2 Existing appointed members
A person who, immediately before the commencement of the amendments to section 5 made by the Judicial Officers Amendment Act 1998, held office as an
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[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
Legislative Council on 1 April 1998
Legislative Assembly on 8 April 1998]
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