Magistrates Court Act 1987

A person holding office as a magistrate at the commencement of this Act is deemed to have been appointed as a magistrate under this Act.

Notwithstanding section 11, a person who is holding office as a magistrate at the commencement of this Act shall not, by virtue of a determination made under section 11 on the commencement of this Act, be stationed in a city or town other than the city or town in which he or she is stationed at that commencement except with that person's consent.

In the case of a person who is holding office as a magistrate at the commencement of this Act, that person's service as a magistrate before that commencement is deemed to be service as a magistrate under this Act for the purpose of calculating his or her entitlements under section 10.

The person who is senior magistrate in the Southern Magisterial District immediately before the commencement of this Act is deemed to have been appointed as the Chief Magistrate under this Act.

The person who is senior magistrate in the Northern Magisterial District immediately before the commencement of this Act is deemed to have been appointed as the Deputy Chief Magistrate under this Act.

The person who is holding office as Clerk of Petty Sessions and Registrar of the Court of Requests at Hobart immediately before the commencement of this Act is deemed to have been appointed as Administrator of the Magistrates Courts under this Act.

On and after the commencement of this Act, a reference to a police magistrate or to a stipendiary magistrate in an Act, or in a regulation, rule, by-law, proclamation, order-in-council, order, summons, warrant, notice, or other instrument or document made, issued, given, or filed under or for the purposes of an Act or for the purposes of any legal proceedings shall be read as a reference to a person who is appointed as a magistrate, or is deemed to have been so appointed, under this Act.

In this section – commencement of this Act means the day fixed by proclamation under section 2(2).