This legislation has been repealed.
(1) Except as provided
by this Act or under section 10 of the Children’s Court of Western
Australia Act 1988 , no person shall be appointed as a stipendiary magistrate,
police magistrate, resident magistrate, or magistrate of a local court or
otherwise as a paid or salaried magistrate.
(2) Any reference in
any Act to a magistrate, howsoever designated otherwise than as a magistrate
of the Children’s Court, shall, unless the context otherwise requires,
be construed to include a reference to a stipendiary magistrate appointed or
deemed to have been appointed under this Act.
[Section 6 amended by No. 15 of 1979 s.9; No. 49
of 1988 s.70; No. 15 of 1991 s.21; No. 73 of 1994 s.4.]