Small Claims Tribunals Act Amendment Act (No. 2) 1978 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

SMALL CLAIMS

TRIBUNALS (No. 2).

No. 71 of 1978.

AN ACT to amend the Small Claims Tribunals Act,

1974-1978.

[Assented to 26th September, 1978.11

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 Small Claims 217gtNion.

Tribunals Act Amendment Act (No. 2), 1978.

(2)

In this Act the Small Claims Tribunals Act, 11974N:el. 69 f

amended by

1974-1978 is referred to as the principal Act.	Acta Nos. 19
of 1976 and of 1975, 99

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may 44 of 1978.

be cited as the Small Claims Tribunals Act, 1974-

No. 71.] Small Claims Tribunals (No. 2). [1978.

Commence-	2.	This Act shall be deemed to have come into
ment.

operation on the 24th January, 1975.

Section 7

substituted. 3. Section 7 of the principal Act is repealed and

the following section substituted-

Eligibility

to hold	7. Any person-
office as

referee.	(a)	who is a legal practitioner whose name appears on the Roll of Practitioners referred to in section 23 of the Legal Practitioners Act, 1893;
(b)	who is not suspended from practice pursuant to the Legal Practitioners Act, 1893; and
(c)	who has not attained the age of seventy-five years,

may be appointed and hold office as a referee. .