New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SUPREME COURT ACT 1970 - SECT 39

39 Intra-curial arrangements

(1) Intra-curial arrangements for the transaction by the Judges of Appeal of the business of the Court of Appeal shall be made by the President of the Court of Appeal with the concurrence of the Chief Justice.

(2) Intra-curial arrangements for the transaction of the business of any Division, by the Judges appointed or nominated to that Division--

(a) may be made by all the Divisional Judges or by a majority of those of them present at a meeting summoned for that purpose and attended by at least ten of them,

(b) subject to any arrangement made as provided by paragraph (a), shall be made by the Chief Justice, and

(c) in the case of a Division of which there is a Chief Judge, but subject to any arrangement made as provided by paragraph (a) or paragraph (b), shall, subject to subsection (2A), be made by the Chief Judge.

(2A) Subject to any arrangement made as provided by subsection (2) (a), a Chief Judge shall be responsible to the Chief Justice for, and be subject to the direction of the Chief Justice in respect of, the transaction of the business and the administration of the Chief Judge's Division.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2)
"Divisional Judges" means the Chief Justice and all the Judges except any Judge not appointed or nominated to a Division.

(4) This section has effect notwithstanding section 124.