Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Magistrates' Court Act 1989 - SECT 10A

Pension of Chief Magistrate

10A. Pension of Chief Magistrate





(1) The Chief Magistrate and the partner and children of the Chief Magistrate
are entitled to pensions in the same circumstances and at the same rates and
on the same terms and conditions as a judge of the County Court (other than
the Chief Judge) and the partner and children of such a judge are entitled to
pensions under section 14 of the County Court Act 1958.

(2) A pension under this section is liable to be suspended or determined in
the same circumstances and to the same extent as pensions under section 14 of
the County Court Act 1958 are liable to be suspended or determined.

(2A) A pension under this section may be commuted in the same circumstances
and to the same extent as pensions under sections 14AC, 14AF and 14AI of the
County Court Act 1958 may be commuted and for that purpose sections 14AA to
14AI of that Act apply with such modifications as are necessary.

(3) Pensions under this section and any payments of lump sums provided by the
commutation of those pensions are payable out of the Consolidated Fund which
is hereby to the necessary extent appropriated accordingly.

(4) This section applies in respect of the appointment of a Chief Magistrate
made on or after 7 May 1996.



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