Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS (NORTHERN TERRITORY) ACT 1976 No. 191 of 1976 - SECT 53

53. (1) A person shall not be appointed as Commissioner unless he is a Judge
of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.

(2) A person ceases to hold office as Commissioner if he ceases to be a Judge
of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.

(3) The appointment of a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory
as Commissioner and his service as Commissioner shall not affect his tenure of
his judicial office or his rank, title, status, precedence, salary or annual
allowances or other judicial privileges as the holder of that judicial office
and, for all purposes, his service as Commissioner shall be taken to be
service as the holder of his judicial office.