New South Wales Consolidated Acts

JUDICIAL OFFICERS ACT 1986 - SECT 53

53 Operation of certain other Acts

(1) The Public Service Act 1979 does not apply to or in respect of the appointment of a member of the Commission or Conduct Division and such a member is not, as a member, subject to that Act.

(2) If by or under any other Act provision is made:

(a) requiring a person who is the holder of a specified office to devote the whole of his or her time to the duties of that office, or

(b) prohibiting the person from engaging in employment outside the duties of that office,

that provision does not operate to disqualify the person from holding that office and also the office of a member of the Commission or Conduct Division or from accepting and retaining any remuneration payable to the person under this Act as an appointed member of the Commission.

(3) The office of an appointed member of the Commission shall for the purposes of any Act be deemed not to be an office or place of profit under the Crown.

(4) The Commission, the Conduct Division, the members of either body, the officers of the Commission, the members of any committee of the Commission and any members of the Police Force or other persons assisting either body are not subject to the Ombudsman Act 1974 or the Police Regulation (Allegations of Misconduct) Act 1978 so far as concerns anything done or omitted under or for the purposes of this Act or purporting to have been done or omitted for those purposes.

(5) The Interpretation Act 1987 does not operate so as to authorise the suspension or removal of a judicial officer from judicial office.