Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2012A00007:clause:1_45b
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2012A00007
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 45B
Character Range: 11842–12437

45B  Magistrates—personal capacity
 (1) A function or power conferred on a magistrate by this Act is conferred on the magistrate:
 (a) in a personal capacity; and
 (b) not as a court or a member of a court.
 (2) A magistrate (other than a Federal Magistrate) need not accept a function or power conferred.
 (3) A magistrate has, in relation to the performance or exercise of a function or power conferred on the magistrate by this Act, the same protection and immunity as if he or she were exercising that function or power as, or as a member of, the court of which the magistrate is a member.