South Australian Consolidated Acts

JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION (AUXILIARY APPOINTMENTS AND POWERS) ACT 1988 - SECT 6

6—Concurrent judicial appointments

        (1)         A judicial officer may hold concurrent appointments to two or more judicial offices.

        (2)         Where the Governor makes an appointment by virtue of which a judicial officer will hold two or more concurrent appointments, one of the judicial offices must be designated by the Governor (with the consent of the appointee) as the primary judicial office.

        (3)         The remuneration and conditions of service of a judicial officer who holds two or more concurrent appointments will be the same as for a judicial officer who holds a single appointment to the primary office.

        (4)         Subject to subsection (5), the retirement, resignation or removal from office of a judicial officer who holds two or more concurrent appointments will be governed by the law applicable to the primary office and the judicial officer will, until retirement, resignation or removal from office (or earlier death), continue to hold both or all of those appointments.

        (5)         A judicial officer who holds two or more concurrent appointments may not, except with the approval of the Governor, resign from one or more of the relevant judicial offices without resigning from all of them, and a resignation, unless it is a resignation from all judicial offices, will not give rise to any right to pension, retirement leave or other similar benefit.

        (6)         This section does not apply in relation to—

            (a)         the appointment of a person to act in two or more judicial offices on an auxiliary basis; or

            (b)         the appointment of a judicial officer who holds judicial office on a permanent basis to act in some other judicial office on an auxiliary basis.