Section 6
Substitute member
of Judges' Ethics Committee Act 2010
ActIn forceProvision 6 of 15
Section 6
(1)
Where the Chairman is unable, through illness or for any other reason, to attend a disciplinary proceeding, the next senior serving judge in the Committee shall be the Chairman, and the
Chief Justice of the Federal Court shall appoint another judge in place of that senior judge.
(2)
Where any member of the Committee is unable, through illness or for any other reason, to attend a disciplinary proceeding, the Chief Justice of the Federal Court shall appoint another judge in place of that member.
(3)
A member of the Committee appointed under subsection (1)
or (2) shall be a judge who is senior in the order of precedence to the judge who is the subject of a disciplinary proceeding.