Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00794:section:53
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00794
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 53
Character Range: 285667–286435

53  Judge or former Judge to be appointed as Commissioner
 (1) A person shall not be appointed as a Commissioner unless he or she is or has been a Judge.
 (3) The appointment of a Judge as a Commissioner and the Judge's service as a Commissioner does not affect:
 (a) his or her tenure of judicial office; or
 (b) the Judge's rank, title, status, precedence, salary or annual allowances or other judicial privileges as the holder of that judicial office.
 (3A) For all purposes, the Judge's service as a Commissioner is taken to be service as the holder of his or her judicial office.
 (4) In this section, Judge means:
 (a) a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia; or
 (b) a Judge, additional Judge, or acting Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.