New South Wales Consolidated Acts

JUDICIAL OFFICERS ACT 1986 - SECT 40

40 Suspension of judicial officers

(1) If:

(a) a complaint is made about a judicial officer or a report is made by the Conduct Division setting out its opinion that a matter could justify parliamentary consideration of the removal of a judicial officer from office, or

(b) a judicial officer is:

(i) charged in New South Wales with an offence that is punishable by imprisonment for 12 months or upwards or charged elsewhere than in New South Wales with an offence that if committed in New South Wales would be an offence so punishable, or

(ii) convicted in New South Wales or elsewhere of such an offence,

the appropriate authority may suspend the officer.

(2) The appropriate authority may lift the suspension at any time.