Northern Territory Numbered Acts

JUDICIAL AND OTHER OFFICERS' ENTITLEMENTS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2023 (NO 14 OF 2023) - SECT 39

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17     Transitional matters for Judicial and Other Officers' Entitlements Legislation Amendment Act 2023

    (1)     An authorisation under section 8(4) that is in effect immediately before the commencement is taken to be an authorisation made under section 8(4)(b) as in force after the commencement.

    (2)     Despite their repeal, section 13(5) to (7), as in force immediately before the commencement, continue to apply to and in relation to a person who was appointed to be the Solicitor-General before the commencement.

    (3)     For section 13(5), as saved by subsection (2), the Solicitor-General is taken to have been appointed as a Supreme Court Judge under section 32(1)(c) or (d) of the Supreme Court Act 1979 on the day the Solicitor-General was appointed to be the Solicitor-General.

    (4)     Part 4, Division 2, as inserted by the amending Act, does not apply to a person who was appointed to be the Solicitor-General before the commencement.

    (5)     In this section:

"amending Act "means the Judicial and Other Officers' Entitlements Legislation Amendment Act 2023 .

"commencement "means the day on which section 30 of the amending Act commences.