New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DUST DISEASES TRIBUNAL ACT 1989 - SCHEDULE 2

SCHEDULE 2 – Provisions applicable to a member of the Tribunal

(Section 7 (4))

1A Interpretation

In this Schedule--

"Judge" includes an acting Judge.

"New South Wales court" means the Supreme Court or District Court, or a Court that is of equivalent status (for the purposes of Part 9 of the Constitution Act 1902 ) to the Supreme Court or District Court.

1 Effect of appointing a Judge of a New South Wales court to be a member of the Tribunal

(1) Neither the appointment as a member of the Tribunal of a person who is a Judge of a New South Wales court, nor the service of the person as such a member, affects the person's tenure of office as a Judge of that Court or the person's rank, title, status, precedence, salary or other rights or privileges as a holder of that office.

(2) A Judge of a New South Wales court who is appointed as a member of the Tribunal may continue to exercise the functions of a Judge of that Court.

(3) The service, as a member of the Tribunal, of a Judge of a New South Wales court shall, for all purposes, be taken to be service as a Judge of that Court.

2 Vacation of office

A person who holds office as a member of the Tribunal by virtue of being a Judge of a New South Wales court ceases to hold that office if the person--

(a) ceases to be a Judge of that Court, or

(b) resigns that office by instrument in writing addressed to the Governor.