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CONSTITUTION OF QUEENSLAND 2001 - SECT 63

Protection if office abolished

63 Protection if office abolished

(1) This section applies if an office held by a judge is abolished either directly or by abolition of a court or part of a court.
(2) The judge is entitled at least, without loss of salary, to be appointed to, and to hold, another office of equivalent or higher status in the same court in which the judge held the abolished office or in another court, unless the judge already holds that type of office.
(3) The entitlement mentioned in subsection (2)
(a) continues for the period during which the judge would have been entitled to hold the abolished office, subject to removal under section 61 ; and
(b) lapses if the judge fails to take up an appointment to the other office or resigns from it.



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