SUPREME COURT ACT 1970 - SECT 111 Appointment of associate Judges and acting associate Judges

SUPREME COURT ACT 1970 - SECT 111

111 Appointment of associate Judges and acting associate Judges

(1) The Governor may appoint one or more associate Judges.

(2) The Governor may appoint one or more acting associate Judges.

(3) Each person so appointed is to be a person who--

(a) holds or has held a judicial office of this State or of the Commonwealth, another State or a Territory, or

(b) is an Australian lawyer of at least 5 years' standing.

(5) A registrar may, if qualified in accordance with subsections (3) and (4), be appointed an acting associate Judge and, if so appointed, may retain his or her office as registrar.

(6) A retired associate Judge may be appointed under subsection (2) as an acting associate Judge even though the retired associate Judge has reached the mandatory judicial retirement age (or will have reached that age before the appointment expires), but may not be so appointed for any period that extends beyond the day on which he or she reaches the age of 78 years.