Judicial Administration (Auxiliary Appointments and Powers) Act 1988 (SA)

South Australia Judicial Administration (Auxiliary Appointments and Powers) Act 1988 An Act to supplement, and achieve efficiencies in the deployment of, the State's judiciary; and for other purposes.

Contents 1 Short title 2 Interpretation 3 Appointment of judicial auxiliaries 4 Powers of judicial auxiliary 5 Power of judicial officer to act in co-ordinate and less senior offices 6 Concurrent judicial appointments 7 Regulations Legislative history

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows: 1—Short title This Act may be cited as the Judicial Administration (Auxiliary Appointments and Powers) Act 1988. 2—Interpretation In this Act— judicial office means— (a) the office of Judge of the Supreme Court (including a Judge of the Court of Appeal Division of the Supreme Court); (b) the office of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, District Court Judge, Judge of the Licensing Court or Judge of the Environment, Resources and Development Court; (ba) the office of a Presidential member of the South Australian Employment Tribunal (other than a Presidential member who is a Magistrate); (c) the office of Associate Judge of the District Court; (d) the office of Chief Magistrate or Magistrate; (da) the office of a Presidential member of the South Australian Employment Tribunal where the Presidential member is a Magistrate; (e) the office of commissioner of the Environment, Resources and Development Court, (and the order of the above paragraphs indicates the level of seniority of the various offices, the inclusion of reference to more than one office in the same paragraph indicating a co-ordinate level of seniority); judicial officer means a person appointed to hold or act in a judicial office and includes a person appointed under this Act to act in a judicial office on an auxiliary basis. 3—Appointment of judicial auxiliaries (1) The Governor may, with the concurrence of the Chief Justice, appoint a person to act in a specified judicial office or in specified judicial offices on an auxiliary basis. (2) A person cannot be appointed to act in a judicial office under this section unless the person— (a) is eligible for appointment to the relevant judicial office on a permanent basis; or (b) would be eligible for appointment to the relevant judicial office on a permanent basis but for the fact that he or she is over the age of retirement; or (c) has retired from office— (i) as a judge of— (A) the High Court; or (B) the Federal Court; or (C) the Supreme Court of some other State, or a Territory, of the Commonwealth; or (D) the District Court or County Court of some other State, or a Territory, of the Commonwealth; or (E) the Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court of New Zealand; or (ii) as a magistrate; or (d) holds office— (i) as a judge of— (A) the Federal Court; or (B) the Supreme Court of some other State, or a Territory, of the Commonwealth; or (C) the District Court or County Court of some other State, or a Territory, of the Commonwealth; or (D) the Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court of New Zealand; or (ii) as a magistrate; or (e) holds a prescribed office in a prescribed court of a jurisdiction outside Australia. (2a) However, a person cannot be appointed under subsection (2)(d) or (e) except with the concurrence of the judicial head of the Court of the other jurisdiction. (3) A person who already holds a judicial office may concurrently hold an appointment under this section to act in some other judicial office on an auxiliary basis. (4) An appointment made under this section will be for an initial term (not exceeding 12 months) specified in the instrument of appointment and may, with the concurrence of the Chief Justice, be extended for a further term or terms (but the appointment may not be extended on any one occasion by more than 12 months). (5) An appointment under this section cannot be revoked. (6) The remuneration and conditions of service applicable to a person holding an appointment under this section will be determined by the Governor with the concurrence of the Chief Justice. (7) A person acquires no rights under the Judges' Pensions Act 1971 in respect of service in a judicial office on an auxiliary basis unless that person concurrently holds an appointment (on a permanent basis) to some other judicial office that attracts such rights, in which case the service will be treated as if it were service in the office that he or she holds on a permanent basis. (8) For the purposes of this section, if in order to be eligible for appointment to a judicial office on a permanent basis a person must hold some other judicial office, the person is to be regarded as eligible for appointment to the judicial office on a permanent basis if he or she is eligible for appointment to the other judicial office on a permanent basis or would be so eligible but for the fact that he or she is over the age of retirement. 4—Powers of judicial auxiliary (1) A person appointed to act in a judicial office on an auxiliary basis has, during the term of appointment, the same jurisdiction and powers as if appointed to the relevant judicial office on a permanent basis. (1a) A person appointed to act in a judicial office on an auxiliary basis may only exercise the jurisdiction and powers deriving from that office in respect of matters assigned to that person by— (a) the judicial head of the court in which the office exists; or (b) the judicial head of some other court in which he or she is undertaking, or is about to undertake, judicial work. (2) A person appointed to act in a judicial office on an auxiliary basis may, after the conclusion of a term of appointment, continue to act in the relevant office for the purpose of completing the hearing and determination of proceedings part-heard before the expiration of that term. 5—Power of judicial officer to act in co-ordinate and less senior offices (1) A judicial officer holding or acting in a particular judicial office may exercise, in addition to the jurisdiction and powers attaching to that office, the jurisdiction and powers attaching to any other judicial office of a co-ordinate or lesser level of seniority. (3) A judicial officer who holds a particular judicial office but is acting in another may adopt the title appropriate to that other office. (4) A judicial officer who has been appointed to hold or act in a judicial office in a particular court must obtain the consent of the judicial head of that court before undertaking judicial work in another court (but such a consent is not required where the occasion to exercise the jurisdiction and powers of some other court arises incidentally in some matter before the court to which the judicial officer was appointed). 6—Concurrent judicial appointments (1) A judicial officer may hold concurrent appointments to two or more judicial offices. (2) Where the Governor makes an appointment by virtue of which a judicial officer will hold two or more concurrent appointments, one of the judicial offices must be designated by the Governor (with the consent of the appointee) as the primary judicial office. (3) The remuneration and conditions of service of a judicial officer who holds two or more concurrent appointments will be the same as for a judicial officer who holds a single appointment to the primary office. (4) Subject to subsection (5), the retirement, resignation or removal from office of a judicial officer who holds two or more concurrent appointments will be governed by the law applicable to the primary office and the judicial officer will, until retirement, resignation or removal from office (or earlier death), continue to hold both or all of those appointments. (5) A judicial officer who holds two or more concurrent appointments may not, except with the approval of the Governor, resign from one or more of the relevant judicial offices without resigning from all of them, and a resignation, unless it is a resignation from all judicial offices, will not give rise to any right to pension, retirement leave or other similar benefit. (6) This section does not apply in relation to— (a) the appointment of a person to act in two or more judicial offices on an auxiliary basis; or (b) the appointment of a judicial officer who holds judicial office on a permanent basis to act in some other judicial office on an auxiliary basis. 7—Regulations The Governor may make such regulations as are contemplated by, or necessary or expedient for the purposes of, this Act.