Western Australian Consolidated Acts

FAMILY COURT ACT 1997 - SECT 19

19 .         Judges’ Salaries and Pensions Act 1950 applies to Family Court judges

                The provisions of the Judges’ Salaries and Pensions Act 1950 that relate to pensions apply, with such modifications as circumstances require, to and in relation to — 

            (a)         a Family Court judge; and

            (b)         after the judge’s death, the judge’s surviving spouse, de facto partner or children,

                in the same manner as they apply to and in relation to a judge of the Supreme Court appointed after the commencement of that Act and to and in relation to the surviving spouse, de facto partner or children of a judge of the Supreme Court after that judge’s death, and for that purpose judge in that Act includes a Family Court judge.

        [Section 19 amended by No. 28 of 2003 s. 51.]