District Courts Amendment Act 1979

1: Short Title and commencement
1: This Act may be cited as the District Courts Amendment Act 1979, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Act heretofore known as the Magistrates' Courts Act 1947
2: This section and section 5
3: Except as provided in subsection (2)
2: Altering Short Title of principal Act and amending Acts
1: The principal Act may hereafter be cited as the District Courts Act 1947
2: The Short Title of the principal Act and the Short Titles of the Acts specified in Schedule 1 Magistrates' District
3: Every reference in any enactment to any of the said Acts is hereby consequentially amended by omitting the word Magistrates' District
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5: Number of Magistrates increased
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2: The Magistrates' Courts Amendment Act 1977
3: This section shall expire with the 31st day of March 1980. Subsection (1) repealed
6: Appointment and qualifications
1: This subsection substituted section 5
2: Section 3 of the District Courts Amendment Act 1974
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7A: Section 7A repealed 1 April 1985 3(1)﻿(b) District Courts Amendment Act (No 3) 1985
8: Certain functions to be assumed by Chief District Court Judge
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3: Subsection (1) repealed 2 September 1996 District Courts Amendment Act 1996
9: Sections 9 to 11 repealed 13 November 1989 District Courts Amendment Act 1989
10: Sections 9 to 11 repealed 13 November 1989 District Courts Amendment Act 1989
11: Sections 9 to 11 repealed 13 November 1989 District Courts Amendment Act 1989
12: Section 12 repealed 1 July 1991 12(2) District Courts Amendment Act 1991
13: Section 13 14 repealed 13 November 1989 District Courts Amendment Act 1989
14: Section 13 14 repealed 13 November 1989 District Courts Amendment Act 1989
15: Section 15 repealed 3 January 1984 District Courts Amendment Act 1983
16: Section 16 repealed 13 November 1989 District Courts Amendment Act 1989
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18: References to Magistrates' Courts, etc, deemed references to District Courts
1: Every reference to a Magistrate's Court in the principal Act or any other enactment specified in Schedule 1
2: Every reference to a Magistrate's Court in any enactment (other than one to which subsection (1)
19: Transitional provisions
1: Every city, borough, or other place appointed by the Governor-General pursuant to section 4
2: Every person who, immediately before the commencement of this section, was holding office as a Magistrate pursuant to section 5
3: Every person who, immediately before the commencement of this section, was holding office as an acting Magistrate pursuant to section 10 10A
4: The person who, immediately before the commencement of this section, was holding office as a Magistrate pursuant to section 11
5: Every person who, immediately before the commencement of this section, was holding office as a Registrar or Deputy Registrar or an officer of a Magistrate's Court shall be deemed for all purposes to have been appointed to be a Registrar or Deputy Registrar or an officer of a District Court.
6: Any form that was printed, before the commencement of this section, in the form prescribed by or under and for the purposes of the principal Act or the Summary Proceedings Act 1957
20: Repeal
The District Courts Abolition Act 1925