Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY SUPREME COURT ACT 1933 - SECT 7A

    Whenever:

  (a)   the Chief Justice is absent from Australia or from duty; or

  (b)   there is a vacancy in the office of Chief Justice;

the next senior Judge who is in Australia and is able and willing to do so shall perform the duties, and may exercise the powers, of the Chief Justice.