8Prior judicial service

8 Prior judicial service

8 Prior judicial service

(1) In this section:

prior judicial service, in relation to a judge or retired judge, means:

(a) service as a judge within the meaning of this Act, or

(b) service in an office in a State, the Commonwealth or a Territory the holder of which may qualify for a pension or retiring allowance under a law of the State, Commonwealth or Territory relating to pensions or retiring allowances payable to retiring judges, or

(c) service as chairman, acting chairman or additional temporary chairman of the Crown Employees Appeal Board,

being a period of service before his or her appointment as a judge (or, if appointed as a judge on more than 1 previous occasion, before his or her last such appointment).

(2) Any prior judicial service by a judge shall be computed as portion of his or her service as a judge in the judicial office which he or she held immediately before his or her retirement or his or her death before retirement, as the case may be.

(3) Any period during which a judge has served as an additional Judge of Appeal, an acting judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, an acting member of the Industrial Commission of New South Wales, an Acting Judge of the Industrial Court, an acting judicial member of the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales, an acting Judge of the Land and Environment Court (under the Land and Environment Court Act 1979), an acting judge of a District Court (under the District Courts Act 1912), or an acting Judge of the District Court (under the District Court Act 1973), or an acting member of the Workers’ Compensation Commission (under the Workers’ Compensation Act 1926 as in force immediately before the commencement of Schedule 6 (2) to the Workers’ Compensation (Amendment) Act 1984) or an acting Judge of the Compensation Court of New South Wales (under the Compensation Court Act 1984) shall be deemed to be prior judicial service by the judge for the purposes of this section.

s 8: Am 1964 No 52, sec 2 (c); 1965 No 12, sec 14 (b); 1972 No 69, sec 3 (e); 1973 No 9, Sch 2; 1979 No 205, Sch 2, Part 1; 1980 No 44, Sch 1 (2); 1984 No 93, Sch 1; 1991 No 34, Sch 3; 1991 No 94, Sch 1; 1992 No 34, Sch 1; 1996 No 17, Sch 5.