INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 381 Appointment of Chief and other Industrial Magistrates

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 381

381 Appointment of Chief and other Industrial Magistrates

(1) The Governor may appoint a Magistrate to be an Industrial Magistrate, and may appoint any such Industrial Magistrate to be the Chief Industrial Magistrate.

(2) The Governor may appoint a Magistrate to act as Chief Industrial Magistrate during the illness or absence of the Chief Industrial Magistrate and the Magistrate is, while so acting, taken to be the Chief Industrial Magistrate.

(3) A person appointed to any office under this section ceases to hold that office if the person ceases to be a Magistrate or the person resigns that office by instrument in writing addressed to the Governor.

(4) The Chief Industrial Magistrate is entitled to be paid remuneration in accordance with the Statutory and Other Offices Remuneration Act 1975 .

(5) A person holding office as Industrial Magistrate is taken to hold the office on either a full-time or part-time basis, according to whether the person holds the office of Magistrate on a full-time or part-time basis under the Local Court Act 2007 .