New South Wales Consolidated Acts

JUDICIAL OFFICERS ACT 1986 - SECT 44

44 Retirement of judicial officers

(1) Subject to this section, a judicial officer shall retire on reaching the age of 72 years, unless granted retiring leave, in which case the officer shall retire at the end of that leave.

(2) A non-judicial member of the Industrial Relations Commission shall retire on reaching the age of 65 years, unless granted retiring leave, in which case the member shall retire at the end of that leave. However, if the person is duly appointed under the Industrial Relations Act 1996 as such a member after that age, the member shall retire at the end of the further period or periods of appointment.

(3) A Magistrate shall retire on reaching the age of 72 years.

(5) Nothing in this section affects the operation, with respect to the retirement of judicial officers, of any provision of any other Act.