3Acceptance of appointment as Ambassador‑at‑large

##### 3 Acceptance of appointment as Ambassador‑at‑large (1) The Honourable Russell Walter Fox, the Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory and a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, may accept appointment as an Ambassador‑at‑large for the Australian Government in relation to matters concerning nuclear non‑proliferation and nuclear safeguards, and, if he accepts that appointment: (a) his service as such an Ambassador‑at‑large shall, for all purposes, count as service in any judicial office held by him during his appointment as such an Ambassador‑at‑large; and (b) he shall, whether or not he resigns as such Chief Judge, continue to be entitled to receive, during his appointment as such an Ambassador‑at‑large but not after pension becomes payable to him under the Judges’ Pensions Act 1968, the salary and annual allowance payable from time to time to a person who holds both the office of the Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory and the office of a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia. (2) In paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1), a reference to the appointment of the Honourable Russell Walter Fox as Ambassador‑at‑large as referred to in that subsection shall be read as, and as having been at all times, a reference to the term of his appointment as such Ambassador‑at‑large and of any extension or extensions of the term of that appointment, whether effected before or after the commencement of this subsection.