Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NAVIGATION ACT 2012 - SECT 290

  (1)   A power conferred on a magistrate by this Part   is conferred on the magistrate:

  (a)   in a personal capacity; and

  (b)   not as a court or a member of a court.

  (2)   The magistrate need not accept the power conferred.

  (3)   A magistrate exercising a power conferred by this Part has the same protection and immunity as if he or she were exercising the power:

  (a)   as the court of which the magistrate is a member; or

  (b)   as a member of the court of which the magistrate is a member.