Judges’ Salaries and Pensions Amendment Act 2007

 

Judges’ Salaries and Pensions Amendment Act 2007

CONTENTS

1.Short title2

2.Commencement2

3.The Act amended2

4.Section 6 amended2

 

 

 

 

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Judges’ Salaries and Pensions Amendment Act 2007

No. 33 of 2007

An Act to amend the Judges’ Salaries and Pensions Act 1950.

 

[Assented to 21 December 2007]

 

 

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

1.Short title

This is the Judges’ Salaries and Pensions Amendment Act 2007.

2.Commencement

This Act comes into operation as follows:

(a)sections 1 and 2 — on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent;

(b)the rest of the Act — on the day after that day.

3.The Act amended

The amendments in this Act are to the Judges’ Salaries and Pensions Act 1950*.

[*Reprint 5 as 19 September 2003.

For subsequent amendments see Western Australian Legislation Information Tables for 2006, Table 1, and Act No. 77 of 2006.]

4.Section 6 amended

(1)After section 6(2aa) the following subsection is inserted —

(2ab)Where a Judge retires on attaining the age of 70 years having served as a Judge for less than 10 years, the Judge is entitled to a pension at a rate equal to the percentage (P%) of the current judicial salary calculated using the formula —

where —

D1is the length of service as a Judge, expressed in days;

D2is the number of days in the period of 10 years ending on the day on which the Judge retires.

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(2)Section 6(2b) is amended by deleting “or (2aa)” and inserting instead —

“ , (2aa) or (2ab) ”.

 

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