Victorian Numbered Acts

COURTS LEGISLATION (JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS) ACT 2004 (NO 31 OF 2004) - SECT 12

See:
Act No. 110/1986. Reprint No. 4 as at 1 June 2001 and amending Act Nos 44/2001, 11/2002 and 71/2003.
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For section 104(3) of the Supreme Court Act 1986 substitute —

    "(3)     A person must not be appointed as Senior Master, Master, Registrar of the Court of Appeal, Listing Master, Registrar of Criminal Appeals or Taxing Master unless that person—

        (a)     is or has been a judge or magistrate of—

              (i)     the High Court of Australia or of a court created by the Parliament of the Commonwealth; or

              (ii)     a court of Victoria or of another State or of the Northern Territory or the Australian Capital Territory; or

        (b)     has been admitted to legal practice in Victoria, another State, the Northern Territory or the Australian Capital Territory, or has been enrolled as a legal practitioner of the High Court of Australia, for not less than 5 years.".

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