Western Australian Numbered Acts

ACTS AMENDMENT AND REPEAL (COURTS AND LEGAL PRACTICE) ACT 2003 (NO. 65 OF 2003) - SECT 107

107 .         Children’s Court of Western Australia Act 1988 amended

        (1)         The amendments in this section are to the Children’s Court of Western Australia Act 1988 *.

        [*         Reprinted as at 25 August 2000.
                For subsequent amendments see 2001 Index to Legislation of Western Australia, Table 1, p. 51 and Act No. 27 of 2002 .]

        (2)         Section 3 is amended by inserting before “In this Act” the subsection designation (1).

        (3)         At the end of section 3 the following subsection is inserted —

        (2)         For the purposes of this Act, "legal experience” is —

            (a)         standing and practice in the State as a legal practitioner (as defined in the Legal Practice Act 2003 );

            (b)         standing and practice in another State or a Territory as a barrister or solicitor of the Supreme Court of that State or Territory;

            (c)         judicial service (including service as a judge of a court, a magistrate or other judicial officer) in the State or elsewhere in a common law jurisdiction; or

            (d)         a combination of 2 or more kinds of legal experience defined in this subsection.

”.

        (4)         Section 7(2) is repealed and the following subsection is inserted instead —

“
        (2)         A person is not eligible for appointment as a Judge unless that person —

            (a)         is or has been a legal practitioner and has had not less than 8 years’ legal experience; or

            (b)         is a practising barrister of the High Court of Australia and has had not less than 8 years’ legal experience.

”.