Honorary Justices Act 2014

The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to the following—

a code of conduct applying to all honorary justices or to a class of honorary justices that includes, but is not limited to, the following matters—

the use of titles;

conflicts of interest;

competency and knowledge requirements;

the confidentiality of information gained by an honorary justice in the course of carrying out his or her functions as an honorary justice;

the requirement to be reasonably available and active;

courses of training or professional development to be completed by any of the following—

a person seeking to be appointed as an honorary justice;

a person seeking to be re-appointed as a bail justice;

a person appointed to the office of justice of the peace or bail justice;

a person who is a bail justice by virtue of holding a prescribed office;

offices that are prescribed for the purposes of section 18;

the form and manner of the oath or affirmation of office that is to be taken by an honorary justice;

any other matter or thing required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.

The regulations may—

be of general or limited application; and

differ according to differences in time, place or circumstances; and

require matters to be—

in accordance with specified standards or specified requirements; or

approved by or to the satisfaction of a specified person or body or class of persons or bodies; or

as specified in both subparagraphs (i) and (ii); and

confer a discretionary authority or impose a duty on a specified person or body or class of persons or bodies; and

leave any matter or thing to be from time to time determined, applied, dispensed with or regulated by a specified person; and

provide in a specified case or class of cases for the exemption of persons or things or a class of persons or things from any of the provisions of the regulations whether unconditionally or on specified conditions and either wholly or to such an extent as specified.