REWRITING LAW RELATING TO MAGISTRATE'S COURT
" — ^ • • • sr-r— r WELLINGTON, July 22. The jurisdiction of Magistrgtes in civil claims is extended from £300 to £500 by a elause in the\ Magistrates ' Courts Bill, a tpchnical measure of 125 clauses, which was introduced in the House o.f Representatives today. The Bill, whieh was read a second time pro forma and referred to the statutes revision eommittee, fixes the salary of Magistrates at £1250 a yqar with prescribed allowances. The Bill states that the number of Magistrates shall not al any time exeeed 35. The retiriug age for Magistrates is fixed at 68 years. Mr. II. G. R. Mason, Minister of Justice, explained that the Bill rewrote the law relating to the constitution and jurisdiction of Magistrate's Courts rather differently from the present ex position • of it in the existing statutes.. It set up courts and did no.t go so mucfi into . the proeejure, leaving that to be settled by rules as in the case *of the Supreme Court. .
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19470723.2.45
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 23 July 1947, Page 5
Word Count
166REWRITING LAW RELATING TO MAGISTRATE'S COURT Chronicle (Levin), 23 July 1947, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in