New Zealand Legislation: Acts

11B Right to hold other office and to engage in other employment

• (1) Subject to subsection (2), a Community Magistrate may—

  • (a) hold any other office; and

  • (b) engage in any other employment or calling—

  that, in the opinion of the Governor-General, will not impair the proper discharge of the functions of a Community Magistrate.

  (2) No Community Magistrate may—

  • (a) hold a current practising certificate under the Law Practitioners Act 1982; or

  • (b) hold office as a constable or as a traffic officer; or

  • (c) hold office as an employee of the Public Service who is employed—

    • (i) in the Ministry of Justice; or

    • (ii) in the Department of Corrections; or

    • (iii) [Repealed]

    • (iv) as an officer of the High Court or of a District Court; or

  • (d) be a party to a management contract entered into under section 4A of the Penal Institutions Act 1954 or to a security contract entered into under section 166 of the Corrections Act 2004; or

  • (e) be a security officer within the meaning of section 3(1) of the Corrections Act 2004; or

  • (f) be a social worker within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989.

  Compare: 1988 No 110 s 7(5)

  Section 11B: inserted, on 30 June 1998, by section 3 of the District Courts Amendment Act 1998 (1998 No 76).

  Section 11B(2)(b): amended, on 1 October 2008, pursuant to section 116(a)(ii) of the Policing Act 2008 (2008 No 72).

  Section 11B(2)(c)(iii): repealed, on 1 October 2003, by section 12(2) of the State Sector Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 41).

  Section 11B(2)(d): amended, on 1 June 2005, by section 206 of the Corrections Act 2004 (2004 No 50).

  Section 11B(2)(e): amended, on 1 June 2005, by section 206 of the Corrections Act 2004 (2004 No 50).