AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Justices of the Peace Ordinance 1989
No. 44 of 1989
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1930. 
Dated 9 May 1989.
	BILL HAYDEN
	Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
CLYDE HOLDING
Minister of State for the Arts and Territories

An Ordinance to provide for the appointment of justices of the peace consequentially upon the repeal of the Seat of Government (Administration) Ordinance 1930

Short title
1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Justices of the Peace Ordinance 1989.1
Commencement
2.  (1)  Section 1 and this section commence on the day on which this Ordinance is notified in the Gazette.
(2)  The remaining provisions commence on the date of commencement of section 22 of the Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988 of the Commonwealth.
Appointments
3.  (1)  The Minister may, by instrument, appoint such justices of the peace as he or she thinks fit.
(2)  Before commencing to perform the duties of his or her office, a justice of the peace appointed under subsection (1) shall take an oath of office, or make an affirmation of office, before a Judge of the Supreme Court, in accordance with the relevant form in the Schedule.
Register
4.  (1)  The Registrar of the Supreme Court shall keep a register to be known as “The Register of Justices of the Peace of the Australian Capital Territory”.
(2)  Upon the appointment of a justice of the peace, the Registrar shall enter his or her name in the register.
(3)  The Registrar shall strike off the register the name of a person whose appointment as a justice of the peace has ceased.
Appointments—saving
5.  A person who was, immediately before the commencement of section 3, appointed, or to be deemed to have been appointed, as a justice of the peace under the Seat of Government (Administration) Ordinance 1930 shall be deemed to have been appointed under section 3 of this Act upon that commencement.

Register—saving
6.  The Register of Justices of the Peace of the Australian Capital Territory kept under section 17 of the Seat of Government (Administration) Ordinance 1930 immediately before the date of commencement of section 4 of this Act shall be deemed to be a part of the register kept under section 4 of this Act.

	SCHEDULE	Subsection 3 (2)
OATH AND AFFIRMATION OF OFFICE
OATH
I, A.B., do swear that I will well and truly serve in the office of justice of the peace of the Australian Capital Territory
SO HELP ME GOD!
AFFIRMATION
I, A.B., do solemnly and sincerely affirm and declare that I will well and truly serve in the office of justice of the peace of the Australian Capital Territory.

NOTE
1.	Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 10 May 1989.