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AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (SELF-GOVERNMENT) ACT 1988 - SECT 48C

Judicial commission

  (1)   An enactment relating to the establishment of a judicial commission for the Territory must provide that:

  (a)   the commission is to be constituted by persons who:

  (i)   have been Justices of the High Court or are, or have been, Judges of a superior court of record of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory (other than persons who are Judges of the Supreme Court of the Territory appointed under subsection   7(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1933 of the Territory); and

  (ii)   are appointed by the Executive for such terms as are determined in accordance with the enactment; and

  (b)   the commission is to have the function (whether alone or together with another body or authority of the Territory) of investigating, and reporting to the Attorney - General of the Territory on, complaints concerning the conduct or the physical or mental capacity of a judicial officer.

  (2)   A judicial commission may have functions in addition to the function mentioned in paragraph   (1)(b).


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