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Salaries of Judges Amendment Act 1975

COOK ISLANDS

SALARIES OF JUDGES AMENDMENT ACT 1975

ANALYSIS

Title

1. Short Title
2. Salaries of Judges
3. Repeal

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1975, No. 12

An Act to amend the Salaries of Judges Act 1969

(24 June 1975

BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of the Cook Islands in Session assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. Short Title - This Act may be cited as the Salaries of Judges Amendment Act 1975 and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Salaries of Judges Act 1969 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act".)

2. Salaries of Judges - (1) There shall be paid to the Judges, out of the Cook Islands Public Account, without further appropriation than this section, salaries at such rates as the High Commissioner by Order in Executive Council, from time to time determines.

(2) No Order in Executive Council shall be made under this section except on the recommendation of the Minister responsible for Justice made after consultation by him with the Chief Judge of the High Court.

(3) Every Order in Executive Council under this section, and every provision of any such Order, in respect of which no date is specified as aforesaid shall come into force on the date of the making of the Order.

(4) The provisions of section 8 of the Regulations Act 1971-72 (which relate to the laying of regulations before the Legislative Assembly) shall extend and apply to every Order in Executive Council made under this section.

(5) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this section, the salary payable to the Chief Judge of the High Court and Land Court and to the Judge of the Land Court shall continue to be paid at the rate fixed by sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Salaries of Judges Amendment Act 1973 until the rate is altered by an Order made under this section.

3. Repeal - Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Salaries of Judges Amendment Act 1973 are hereby repealed.

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This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.