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Legislation Amendment Bill 1998
Explanatory note
This explanatory note relates to this Bill as introduced into Parliament.
(a) to amend the Administrative Decisions Tribunal Act 1997 so as:
(i) to provide that a Judge of the District Court is the only judicial
officer eligible to be appointed as the President of the Tribunal,
and
(ii) to enable the President of the Tribunal simultaneously to hold
office as a member of another tribunal, and
(iii) to enable members of other tribunals to be appointed to act as
members of the Tribunal, and
(iv) to make other consequential amendments, and
(v)
to make provision for matters of a savings and transitional
nature consequent on the enactment of the proposed Act.
(b)
to amend the Local Government Act 1993 to enable the Tribunal
(instead of a Local Court, the District Court or the Supreme Court) to
make orders dismissing persons from civic office,
(c)
to amend various other Acts and Regulations to confer jurisdiction on
the Tribunal to review decisions made under those Acts and
Regulations that are presently appealable to courts, specified persons
or other bodies or are not appealable at all.
Clause 2 provides for the commencement of the proposed Act on a day or
days to be appointed by proclamation.
Clause 3 is a formal provision giving effect to the amendments to be made
to the Administrative Decisions Tribunal Act 1997 by Schedule 1.
Clause 4 is a formal provision giving effect to the amendments to be made
to the various Acts and Regulations specified in Schedule 2.
Clause 5 provides that the matter appearing under the heading "Explanatory
note" in any of the Schedules does not form part of the proposed Act.
A detailed explanation of each of the amendments is set out in the Bill after
the amendment concerned. A list of the Acts and Regulations to be amended
by the Bill is set out in the notes at the end of the Bill.
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