Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) A judge or a
master shall not be incapable of acting in his judicial office in any
proceeding by reason of his being as one of several ratepayers or as one of
any other class of persons, liable, in common with others, to contribute to or
to be benefited by any rate or tax which may be increased, diminished, or in
any way affected by that proceeding.
(2) In this section
the expression rate or tax means any rate, tax, duty, or assessment whether
public, general or local, and also any fund formed from the proceeds of any
such rate, tax, duty or assessment, or applicable to the same or like purposes
to which any such rate, tax, duty or assessment might be applied.
[Section 12 amended: No. 67 of 1979 s. 7; No. 47
of 1983 s. 13.]