Supreme Court Amendment Act 1990 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

SUPREME COURT AMENDMENT ACT

No. 25 of 1990

AN ACT to amend the Supreme Court Act 1935.

[Assented to 18 September 1990.]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Supreme Court Amendment Act

1990.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it

receives the Royal Assent.

No. 25] Supreme Court Amendment Act [1990

Section 11A amended

3. Section 11A of the Supreme Court Act 1935* is amended

(a) by deleting paragraph (a) of subsection (2) and substituting the following paragraph

C' (a) is or has been a practitioner as defined in the Legal

Practitioners Act 1893 and has had not less than 5 years' legal experience; or "; and

(b) by inserting after subsection (2) the following subsection

'C

(2a) For the purposes of subsection (2) (a), legal

experience is

(a)	standing and practice in the State as a practitioner as defined in the Legal Practitioners Act 1893;
(b)	judicial service elsewhere in a common law jurisdiction; or
(c)	a combination of both kinds of legal experience defined in this subsection. ".

[*Act No. 36 of 1935. Reprinted as at 25 July 1986 and amended by Acts Nos. 22 and 50 of 1986, 65 and 82 of 1987, 14 of 1988 and 37 of 1989.]