Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) There is payable to a person:
(a) who holds a judicial office to which this section applies; and
(b) whose sole or principal place of residence was at the time when the person's appointment, or first appointment, as the case may be, to any such judicial office took effect, and has at all subsequent times been, at a place outside, but not in a part of New South Wales that is adjacent to or in the vicinity of, the Australian Capital Territory;
an allowance, on account of expenses that will be incurred by the person by reason that the person's sole or principal place of residence is at a place outside, and not in a part of New South Wales that is adjacent to or in the vicinity of, the Australian Capital Territory, at the rate of $15,118 per year.
(2) In this section, judicial office to which this section applies means the office of Chief Justice of the High Court or an office of Justice of the High Court.