SUPREME COURT OF QUEENSLAND ACT 1991 - SECT 55 Northern Region

SUPREME COURT OF QUEENSLAND ACT 1991 - SECT 55

55 Northern Region

(1) One of the judges of the court must be called the Northern Judge.

(2) The Governor in Council may, by commission, appoint a judge of the Trial Division to be the Northern Judge.

(3) A judge may be appointed as the Northern Judge when appointed as a judge or at any time afterwards.

(4) The Northern Judge must reside in the Northern Region.

(5) Sittings of the Trial Division must be held within the Northern Region.

(6) Subject to sections 15 and 51 , the Northern Judge is responsible for the orderly and expeditious exercise within the Northern Region of the jurisdiction of the court in the Trial Division.

(7) To the extent necessary or convenient for the exercise of the court’s jurisdiction in the Northern Region, a reference to Brisbane in any Act relating to the court, including a reference to a thing being done at Brisbane, is taken, if otherwise appropriate, to be a reference to Townsville.