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Supreme Court Amendment (Judges) Bill 2016
The Supreme Court Amendment (Judges) Bill 2016 (the Bill) makes amendments to the
Supreme Court Act 1887 and the Supreme Court Act 1959.
The principal purpose of the Bill is to amend the Supreme Court Act 1887 to provide for the
appointment and payment of acting judges on a part time basis. The Bill amends that Act to
provide:
that acting judges can be appointed on either a full-time or part-time basis;
a means by which the remuneration of a part-time acting judge is calculated; and
that an acting judge may complete any part-heard matters before them at the end
of their appointed term.
In addition the Bill also amends the Supreme Court Act 1887 by modernising the language used
to refer to the legal profession, and modernising the language used in the provisions of the Act
relating to qualifications required for appointment as a judge.
The Bill also retrospectively validates appointments to the Supreme Court to remove any
doubt over an appointments validity caused by the historical description of the legal practice
used in the Supreme Court Act 1887.
To ensure consistency, the Bill applies the same amendments, insofar as they relate to the
language used to refer to the legal profession, to the Supreme Court Act 1959 which governs
the appointment of the Associate Judge.
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