New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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| Date of assent | 16 September 1887 |
Source: New Zealand Parliamentary Library, International Document Collection
An Act to amend the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876.
Whereas it is expedient to amend the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876.
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:
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as formed under the provisions of the first section of the Act of the third and fourth William the Fourth, chapter forty-one, intituled “An Act for the better administration of Justice in His Majesty's Privy Council,”
shall include such members of Her Majesty's Privy Council as are for the time being holding or have held any of the offices in the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876, and this Act, described as high judicial offices.
The expression high judicial office as defined in the twenty-fifth section of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876, shall be deemed to include the office of a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and the office of a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
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