Judicature Amendment Act 1956

Public Act		1956 No 80
Date of assent		26 October 1956

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Increasing number of Judges of Supreme Court
3	Salaries of Judges of Supreme Court

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 1956, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Judicature Act 1908.

2 Increasing number of Judges of Supreme Court

(1)

Section two of the Judicature Amendment Act 1913 is hereby amended by omitting from subsection one (as inserted by section two of the Judicature Amendment Act 1953 and amended by section two of the Judicature Amendment Act 1955) the word “eleven”, and substituting the word “twelve”.

(2)

The Judicature Amendment Act 1955 is hereby repealed.

3 Salaries of Judges of Supreme Court

(1)

There shall be paid to the Judges of the Supreme Court out of the Consolidated Fund, without further appropriation than this section, salaries at the following rates, that is to say: To the Chief Justice of New Zealand, at the rate of three thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds a year, and to each of the other Judges, at the rate of three thousand two hundred and fifty pounds a year.

(2)

Section seven of the Finance Act 1954 is hereby repealed.

(3)

This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty-six.

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