New South Wales Repealed Acts New South Wales Repealed ActsThis legislation has been repealed.
No Justice shall be incapable of acting as a Justice at any Local Court on the
trial of any person for an offence under any Act or by-law to be put in
execution by a municipal corporation, or by trustees, or by any other local
authority, by reason only of being a ratepayer or one of a class of persons
who are liable in common with others to contribute to, or who may be benefited
by, any fund to the account of which any penalty or any portion thereof
payable in respect of such offence is directed to be carried, or of which it
will form part, or who are liable to contribute to any rate or expenses in
diminution of which such penalty or any portion thereof will go:
Provided that no Justice, being a mayor, or a councillor, or officer of any
municipality, shall act as aforesaid in any case affecting such municipality
or touching any matter in which the municipality shall as such be directly or
indirectly interested.