9ASuspension

9A Suspension

9A Suspension

(1) The Minister may at any time suspend a justice of the peace from office.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Minister may at any time suspend a justice of the peace from office—

(a) if the person is charged with an offence referred to in section 9 (3) (c), or

(b) in any of the circumstances set out in section 9 (3) (a)–(d), or

(c) in any other circumstances prescribed by the regulations.

(3) A suspension takes effect on the day on which written notice of the suspension is given to the justice of the peace concerned or at such later time as may be specified in the notice.

(4) A person who is suspended under this section is taken not to be a justice of the peace and cannot exercise any function of a justice of the peace during that suspension.

(5) The purported exercise of any function by a justice of the peace during any period that the justice of the peace is suspended cannot be used to challenge or call into question any document or other thing unless the person relying on the document or other thing knew, or ought reasonably to have known, that the justice of the peace was suspended when purporting to exercise the relevant function.

(6) A suspension ceases to have effect when it is withdrawn by the Minister by notice in writing given to the person who is suspended.

s 9A: Ins 2014 No 14, Sch 2.1 [4].