Judiciary

No. 39 of 1969

An Act relating to the Remuneration of the Justices of the High Court.

[Assented to 14 June 1969]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Judiciary Act 1969.

(2.) The Judiciary Act 1903-1968 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Judiciary Act 1903-1969.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Salary and annual allowance.

3. Section 47 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words “Twenty-four thousand dollars a year” and inserting in their stead the words “Thirty thousand dollars a year and an annual allowance of Two thousand dollars”; and

(b) by omitting from that sub-section the words “Twenty-one thousand dollars a year” and inserting in their stead the words “Twenty-seven thousand dollars a year and an annual allowance of One thousand five hundred dollars”.

Payment of salaries and annual allowances.

4. Section 48 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in sub-section (1.), after the word “salaries”, the words “and annual allowances”.