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Magistrates' Courts Amendment Act 1966

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Short Title

Salaries of Magistrates

Persons who may take affidavits, etc.

Magistrates’ Courts Amendment Act 1966

Public Act		1966 No 69
Date of assent		19 October 1966

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Salaries of Magistrates
3	Persons who may take affidavits, etc.
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1947

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 Magistrates’ Courts Amendment Act 1966, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1947 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Salaries of Magistrates

(1)

Section 6 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection (1) (as substituted by section 2(1) of the Magistrates’ Courts Amendment Act 1964), and substituting the following subsection:

“(1)

Every Magistrate shall be paid a salary at the rate of three thousand six hundred and thirty-five pounds a year.”

(2)

Section 2 of the Magistrates’ Courts Amendment Act 1964 is hereby repealed.

(3)

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

3 Persons who may take affidavits, etc.

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 56, and substituting the following section:

“56

An affidavit or affirmation to be used in a Court may be sworn or made before any Magistrate or Registrar, or before any Justice, or before any solicitor of the Supreme Court, but no such affidavit or affirmation, except one sworn or made in respect of an ex parte application in non-contentious proceedings, shall be used if it was taken before a solicitor who, at the time of taking it, was engaged in the proceedings.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.

Magistrates' Courts Amendment Act 1966