LOCAL COURTS ACT 1982 - SECT 10 Registrars of the Local Court

This legislation has been repealed.

LOCAL COURTS ACT 1982 - SECT 10

10 Registrars of the Local Court

(1) There is to be a registrar of the Local Court for each Local Court.

(2) The registrar is to be:

(a) appointed by the Governor under and subject to the Public Sector Management Act 1988 , or

(b) the holder of an office or position:

(i) who was appointed to that office or position otherwise than under and subject to that Act, and

(ii) who is appointed by the Governor to be registrar of the Local Court so long as the holder holds that office or position.

(3) A person holding the office of registrar of a Local Court is taken to vacate that office when the appointment by the Governor of another person to hold that office takes effect.

(4) The Minister may, by order in writing, appoint a person, or the holder of an office, to act in the office of a registrar of a Local Court during:

(a) an absence from duty of the registrar of the Local Court, or

(b) a vacancy of not more than 6 months' duration in the office of that registrar.

(5) The Minister may delegate in writing to the Director-General of the Attorney General's Department the Minister's power of appointment under subsection (4).

(6) A person appointed for the time being under subsection (4), while acting in the office of a registrar of a Local Court, has and may exercise all of the functions of that office.

(7) Any act, matter or thing done by a person while purporting to exercise a function conferred on the person by subsection (6) is not ineffective or unlawful merely because either of the circumstances referred to in subsection (4) (a) and (b) did not exist when the act, matter or thing was done.

(8) Any act, matter or thing done by a person while the person is acting in the office of a registrar of a Local Court is taken to have been done by the registrar of the Local Court.