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JUSTICE AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2008 No. 59 - SECT 89

89 Insertion of new pt 10 div 5

After section 61--

insert--

'(1) This section applies if--

(a) a person held an appointment to act as a magistrate at any time before the commencement of this section; and
(b) during the appointment, the Chief Magistrate, or another magistrate acting with the Chief Magistrate's authority, issued directions to the person about when the person was to carry out the duties of office of a magistrate during the person's period of appointment.

'(2) It is declared that--

(a) the directions of the Chief Magistrate are, and are taken to have always been, as validly issued as they would be if the amendments made by the Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2008, part 20 had been in force when the directions were issued; and
(b) the directions of the other magistrate acting with the Chief Magistrate's authority are, and are taken to have always been, as validly issued as if they had been issued by the Chief Magistrate.

'(1) This section applies if a person held an appointment to act as a magistrate at any time before the commencement of this section.

'(2) It is declared that--

(a) the person's entitlement to remuneration and allowances is, and always has been, limited to an entitlement to remuneration and allowances for the acting period; and
(b) the person's entitlement to remuneration and allowances for the acting period is the appropriate proportion of the remuneration and the allowances that were payable, at the time the person held the appointment, to a magistrate appointed on a full-time basis.

'(3) In this section--

entitlement to remuneration and allowances, of a person, includes the person's entitlement to leave.'.



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