Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) A person is not
eligible for appointment as the President unless the person is a lawyer and
has had not less than 5 years’ legal experience.
(1aa) In
subsection (1) —
lawyer means an Australian lawyer within the
meaning of that term in the Legal Profession Act 2008 section 3;
legal experience means —
(a)
standing and practice as a legal practitioner; or
(b)
judicial service (including service as a judge of a court, a magistrate or
other judicial officer) in the State or elsewhere in a common law
jurisdiction; or
(c) a
combination of both kinds of legal experience mentioned in paragraphs (a)
and (b).
(1a) The President
during the term of his or her office —
(a) is
entitled to the style and title of The Honourable ( name ), President of The
Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission; and
(b) in
appropriate circumstances —
(i)
may be addressed as “Your Honour”; and
(ii)
may be referred to as “His Honour” or
“Her Honour”, as the case may be.
(2) A person shall not
be appointed Chief Commissioner unless —
(a) he
has had experience at a high level in industrial relations; or
(b) he
has, not less than 5 years previously, obtained a degree of a university
or an educational qualification of similar standard after studies considered
by the Governor to have substantial relevance to the duties of the Chief
Commissioner.
[Section 9 inserted by No. 94 of 1984
s. 9; amended by No. 99 of 1990 s. 5; No. 21 of 2008
s. 668(3).]