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JUDGES' SALARIES AND PENSIONS AMENDMENT BILL 2007

                  Western Australia


Judges' Salaries and Pensions Amendment
                 Bill 2007

                     CONTENTS


1.    Short title                         2
2.    Commencement                        2
3.    The Act amended                     2
4.    Section 6 amended                   2




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                     LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

              (As amended during consideration in detail)



    Judges' Salaries and Pensions Amendment
                     Bill 2007


                               A Bill for


An Act to amend the Judges' Salaries and Pensions Act 1950.



The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:




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     1.           Short title
                  This is the Judges' Salaries and Pensions Amendment Act 2007.

     2.           Commencement
                  This Act comes into operation as follows:
 5                 (a) sections 1 and 2 -- on the day on which this Act
                         receives the Royal Assent;
                   (b) the rest of the Act -- on the day after that day.

     3.           The Act amended
                  The amendments in this Act are to the Judges' Salaries and
10                Pensions Act 1950*.
                  [* Reprint 5 as 19 September 2003.
                     For subsequent amendments see Western Australian
                     Legislation Information Tables for 2006, Table 1, and
                     Act No. 77 of 2006.]

15   4.           Section 6 amended
          (1)     After section 6(2aa) the following subsection is inserted --
                "
                 (2ab)   Where a Judge retires on attaining the age of 70 years
                         having served as a Judge for less than 10 years, the
20                       Judge is entitled to a pension at a rate equal to the
                         percentage ("P%") of the current judicial salary
                         calculated using the formula --
                                       D1
                         P% = 60% ×
                                       D2
                         where --
25                        D1 is the length of service as a Judge, expressed in
                               days;
                          D2 is the number of days in the period of 10 years
                               ending on the day on which the Judge retires.
                                                                                  ".

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    (2)   Section 6(2b) is amended by deleting "or (2aa)" and inserting
          instead --
          "   , (2aa) or (2ab)   ".


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