New South Wales Consolidated Acts

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE ACT 2002 - SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 1 – Savings and transitional provisions

(Section 15)

1 Regulations

(1) The regulations may contain provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of the following Acts:

this Act

Courts Legislation Amendment Act 2005

(2) Any such provision may, if the regulations so provide, take effect from the date of assent to the Act concerned or a later date.

(3) To the extent to which any such provision takes effect from a date that is earlier than the date of its publication in the Gazette, the provision does not operate so as:

(a) to affect, in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State or an authority of the State), the rights of that person existing before the date of its publication, or

(b) to impose liabilities on any person (other than the State or an authority of the State) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the date of its publication.

2 Existing justices of the peace

(1) A person who, immediately before the commencement of section 4, was appointed, or held office, as a justice of the peace for the State, is taken to be so appointed, or to hold such office, under this Act until the third anniversary of the commencement of section 4, unless the justice of the peace sooner ceases to hold office.

(2) Nothing in this clause prevents a person referred to in subclause (1) from being re-appointed, or from resigning or being removed from office, in accordance with this Act, as a justice of the peace.

3 Amendments made by Courts Legislation Amendment Act 2005

The amendment made to section 7 by the Courts Legislation Amendment Act 2005 applies to any re-appointment made on or after the commencement of that amendment, regardless of when the person being re-appointed was first appointed as a justice of the peace.