Judicial Committee Act 1881

Judicial Committee Act 1881

Imperial Act
Date of assent17 February 1881
Note

Source: New Zealand Parliamentary Library, International Documents Collection

An Act to further improve the Administration of Justice in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

  • Preamble

    WHEREAS it is expedient that further provision should be made for the administration of justice in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Lords Justices of Appeal to be members of Judicial Committee

  • Every person holding or who has held in England the office of a Lord Justice of Appeal shall, if a member of Her Majesty's Privy Council in England, be a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

2 Short title

  • This Act may be cited as the Judicial Committee Act 1881.