First

Session, 46th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2008

BILL 34

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

JUDICATURE ACT

Received and Read the First Time ...................................................................................................

Second Reading .................................................................................................................................

Committee ............................................................................................................................................

Third Reading .....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent ......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE JEROME P. KENNEDY, Q.C .

Minister of Justice and Attorney General

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Judicature Act to provide for an increase

in the number of judges of the Trial Division by one judge.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE JUDICATURE ACT

Analysis

S.21( 1) R&S

Trial Division

2. Commencement

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cJ-4

as amended

1. Subsection 21(1) of the Judicature Act is repealed and the following substituted:

Trial Division

(1) The

Trial Division consists of 21 judges, one of whom shall be a chief justice, who

shall be called the Chief Justice of the Trial Division, and 20 other judges

who shall be called judges of the Trial Division.

Commencement

2. This Act comes into force on a day to be

proclaimed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer