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First Session, 46th General Assembly

57 Elizabeth II, 2008

BILL 34

AN ACT TO AMEND THE JUDICATURE ACT

Received and Read the First Time...................................................................................................

Second Reading.................................................................................................................................

Committee............................................................................................................................................

Third Reading.....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE JEROME P. KENNEDY, Q.C.

Minister of Justice and Attorney General

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Judicature Act to provide for an increase in the number of judges of the Trial Division by one judge.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE JUDICATURE ACT

Analysis


        1.   S.21(1) R&S
Trial Division

        2.   Commencement


Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cJ-4
as amended

        1. Subsection 21(1) of the Judicature Act is repealed and the following substituted:

Trial Division

      21. (1) The Trial Division consists of 21 judges, one of whom shall be a chief justice, who shall be called the Chief Justice of the Trial Division, and 20 other judges who shall be called judges of the Trial Division.

Commencement

        2. This Act comes into force on a day to be proclaimed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.