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Constitution (Status of Magistrates) (Amendment) Act 2014

SOLOMON ISLANDS

CONSTITUTION (STATUS OF MAGISTRATES) (AMENDMENT) ACT 2014

(NO. 5 OF 2014)

PASSED by the National Parliament this twenty-fourth day of April 2014.

(This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill passed by Parliament and found by me to be a true copy of the Bill)

Taeasi Sanga (Mrs)
Clerk to National Parliament

ASSENTED to in Her Majesty’s name and on Her Majesty’s behalf this 14^th day of May 2014.

Sir Frank Utu Ofagioro Kabui
Governor-General

Date of Commencement: see section 1

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION TO ENABLE MAGISTRATES TO BECOME CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICE HOLDERS.

ENACTED by the National Parliament of Solomon Islands.

CONSTITUTION (STATUS OF MAGISTRATES) (AMENDMENT) ACT 2014

Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Constitution (Status of Magistrates) (Amendment) Act 2014 and shall commence on a date appointed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.

Section 116 amended

2. Section 116(3) of the Constitution is amended by deleting paragraph (a) and substituting the following new paragraph –

"(a) The office of any judge of the High Court, the Court of Appeal or any Magistrate of the Magistrates’ Court;"

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