Acts Interpretation Amendment Act 1973

Public Act		1973 No 46
Date of assent		21 November 1973

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Judicial officers to continue in office to complete proceedings
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Acts Interpretation Act 1924

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 Acts Interpretation Amendment Act 1973, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Acts Interpretation Act 1924 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Judicial officers to continue in office to complete proceedings

(1)

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 25, the following section:

“25a

“(1)

Any judicial officer whose term of office has expired or who has retired from his office shall, whether or not his successor has come into office, continue in office for the purpose of giving judgment in or otherwise determining, or of joining in the giving of judgment in or the determining of, any proceedings heard by him, or by any Court or tribunal of which he was a member, before the expiry of his term of office or his retirement.

“(2)

Except with the consent of the Minister of Justice, a judicial officer shall not continue in office under subsection (1) of this section for more than 1 month.

“(3)

Every judicial officer shall, while he continues in office under subsection (1) of this section, be paid the remuneration and allowances to which he would have been entitled if his term of office had not expired or he had not retired.

“(4)

No judicial officer who continues in office pursuant to this section shall be taken into account for the purposes of any enactment limiting the number of persons who may for the time being hold any specified judicial office.

“(5)

Nothing in this section shall derogate from the provisions of any enactment under which the holder of any office is to continue in office until his successor comes into office.

“(6)

In this section the term ‘judicial officer’ means—

“(a)

A Magistrate:

“(b)

Any other person (not being a Judge of any Court) having in New Zealand by law authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence.”

(2)

Section 155(7) of the Accident Compensation Act 1972 is hereby repealed.

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.

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