Administrative Decisions Review Act 1997

The Equal Opportunity Tribunal is abolished on the commencement of Schedule 2.1 to the amending Act.

On the abolition of the Equal Opportunity Tribunal:

the person holding office as the senior judicial member of the Tribunal immediately before its abolition is by this Act:

appointed as a part-time Deputy President of the ADT, and

appointed as the Divisional Head of the Equal Opportunity Division of the ADT, and

any other person holding office as a judicial member of the Tribunal immediately before its abolition is by this Act:

appointed as a part-time non-presidential judicial member of the ADT, and

assigned to the Equal Opportunity Division of the ADT, and

any person who was holding office as a non-judicial member of the Tribunal immediately before its abolition is by this Act:

appointed as a part-time non-judicial member of the ADT, and

assigned to the Equal Opportunity Division of the ADT.

Any such person who was holding office for a specified term is taken to have been appointed to the new office for the balance of that term of office.

A reference in another Act (other than the amending Act), in an instrument made under an Act or in any document to the Equal Opportunity Tribunal is to be read as a reference to the ADT constituted in accordance with any applicable provisions of Schedule 2 to this Act relating to the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977.