Judicature Amendment Act 1963
Judicature Amendment Act 1963
Judicature Amendment Act 1963
Public Act |
1963 No 133 |
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Date of assent |
25 October 1963 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Judicature Act 1908
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Judicature Amendment Act 1963, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Judicature Act 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Appointment of Hon. Mr Justice Wilson
The Honourable John Nigel Wilson, who was appointed to be a Judge of the Supreme Court for a limited period on the nineteenth day of December, nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and who was appointed permanently on the thirteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and sixty-three, shall be deemed to have been appointed permanently on the said nineteenth day of December, nineteen hundred and sixty-two.
3 Rights on retirement before attaining retiring age
The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 13, the following section:
“14
If the Chief Justice or the President of the Court of Appeal resigns from office before attaining the age of seventy-two years and is, at the time of his resignation and but for the fact of his resignation, entitled to a period of leave of absence, he shall continue to receive the salary, privileges, and allowances of his former office until the expiration of that period or until he attains the age of seventy-two years or until he dies, whichever is the sooner, and his rights and obligations under the Superannuation Act 1956 and all the rights which his widow may have under that Act shall be the same as they would have been if he had been in office while his salary, privileges, and allowances so continued.”
4 Seniority in Court of Appeal
Section 57 of the principal Act (as amended by subsection (1) of section 2 of the Judicature Amendment Act 1957) is hereby further amended by inserting in subsection (6) after the words “according to”
, the words “the dates of their appointments as Judges of the Court of Appeal or, if they are so appointed on the same day, according to”
.
This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.