Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1901 - SECT 16C

             (1)  Where, in an Act, reference is made to a Stipendiary Magistrate, the reference shall be read as including a reference to any Magistrate in respect of whose office an annual salary is payable.

             (2)  Where, in an Act passed after the date of commencement of this section, reference is made to a Magistrate, the reference shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be read as a reference to:

                     (a)  a Chief, Police, Stipendiary, Resident or Special Magistrate; or

                     (b)  any other Magistrate in respect of whose office an annual salary is payable.

             (3)  Unless the contrary intention appears, a reference in an Act to a Magistrate does not include a reference to a Federal Magistrate.