Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976
53Judge or former Judge to be appointed as Commissioner
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53 Judge or former Judge to be appointed as Commissioner
(1) A person shall not be appointed as a Commissioner unless he or she is or has been a Judge. (3) The appointment of a Judge as a Commissioner and the Judge’s service as a Commissioner does not affect: (a) his or her tenure of judicial office; or (b) the Judge’s rank, title, status, precedence, salary or annual allowances or other judicial privileges as the holder of that judicial office. (3A) For all purposes, the Judge’s service as a Commissioner is taken to be service as the holder of his or her judicial office. (4) In this section, Judge means: (a) a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia; or (b) a Judge, additional Judge, or acting Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.