Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies if a person holding office (the existing office) as an appointed justice of the peace or appointed commissioner for declarations is later appointed to hold office (the later office) as--
(a) for an appointed justice of the peace--an appointed justice of the peace of another category or an appointed commissioner for declarations; or
(b) for an appointed commissioner for declarations--an appointed justice of the peace.
(2) The registrar is to remove the person's name from the register as the holder of the existing office and insert an entry that the person holds the later office.
(3) When the entry is made, the person stops holding the existing office and holds the later office.
(4) This section does not apply if section 42 or 44 applies.
Editor's note--
Sections 42 and 44 already provide transitional arrangements for certain office holders becoming justices of the peace (commissioners for declarations) and commissioners for declarations.