Western Australian Consolidated Acts

SUPREME COURT ACT 1935 - SECT 8

8 .         Qualification of judges and acting judges

        (1)         A person is eligible for appointment as a judge of the Court if that person is a lawyer and has had not less than 8 years’ legal experience.

        (2)         A person is eligible for appointment as an acting judge of the Court if that person is, or has retired as — 

            (a)         a judge of the Supreme Court of another State, or Territory; or

            (b)         a judge of the Federal Court of Australia.

        [Section 8 inserted by No. 3 of 1996 s. 5; amended by No. 65 of 2003 s. 119(4); No. 21 of 2008 s. 709(4).]