Commonwealth Numbered Acts

LAW AND JUSTICE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1993 No. 13 of 1994 - SECT 34

34.(1) To avoid doubt, section 29 is taken (in particular, for the purposes of
section 25B of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901) to have altered the name of
the office established by section 18 of the Principal Act.

(2) In any Act, in any instrument under an Act, in any award or other
industrial determination or order or any industrial agreement, in any other
order (whether executive, judicial or otherwise), in any contract, in any
pleading in, or process issued in connection with, any legal or other
proceedings, or in any other instrument, a reference to the Registrar of the
High Court is taken, except in relation to matters that occurred before the
commencement of this Part, to be a reference to the Chief Executive and
Principal Registrar.

(3) The person who, immediately before the commencement of this Part, held
office as the Registrar of the Court under subsection 26(1) of the Principal
Act:

   (a)  is taken to have been appointed at that commencement as the Senior
        Registrar of the Court under subsection 26(1) of the Principal Act as
        amended by this Division; and

   (b)  subject to subsection 26(4) of the Principal Act as in force after
        that commencement, holds office as the Senior Registrar on the terms
        and conditions on which he or she held office as the Registrar
        immediately before that commencement.

(4) Any other person who, immediately before the commencement of this Part,
held office under subsection 26(1) of the Principal Act continues to hold
office after that commencement as if he or she had been appointed to that
office under subsection 26(1) of the Principal Act as in force after that
commencement.