PAPUA NEW GUINEA

National Court (Number of Judges) (Amendment) Act 2023

No. 26 of 2023
Certified on: 16 JAN 2024

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTION.
Number of Judges (Amendment of Section 2).

AN ACT
entitled
National Court (Number of Judges) (Amendment) Act 2023,
Being an Act to amend the National Court (Number of Judges) Act 1984,
MADE by the National Parliament.
NUMBER OF JUDGES (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 2).
The Principal Act is amended by repealing Section 2 and replacing it with the following new section:
	"2. NUMBER OF JUDGES.
	(1) The number of Judges of the National Court shall not be less than sixty and not more than two hundred, as is determined by the Head of State, acting with the advice of the National Executive Council given after considering a report from the Chief Justice.
	(2) The Chief Justice shall, in his report to the National Executive Council under Subsection (1) and Subsection (3), include the following factors:
	(a) vacancy in positions and the need or demand for appointments to be made; and
	(b) the annual budget appropriation being available at the relevant time.
	(3) Following the appointment of the first sixty Judges, a determination of the number of judges from sixty-one up shall be made by the National Executive Council after considering a report from the Chief Justice.".

I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the National Court (Number of Judges) (Amendment) Act 2023, which has been made by the National Parliament. 
Clerk of the National Parliament.
16 JAN 2024

I hereby certify that the National Court (Number of Judges) (Amendment) Act 2023, was made by the National Parliament on 29 November 2023.
Acting Speaker of the National Parliament.
16 JAN 2024