Supreme Court Library Rules 2009

i Supreme Court Library Rules 2009 S.R. No. 96/2009 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Rule Page 1 Object 1 2 Authorising provisions 1 3 Commencement 1 4 Revocation 1 5 Definitions 1 6 Supreme Court Library Committee 2 7 Composition of committee 2 8 Quorum 2 9 Alternates 2 10 Voting 3 11 Secretary 3 12 Rules 3 13 Transitional 3 ═══════════════ ENDNOTES 5 -- 1 of 6 -- 1 STATUTORY RULES 2009 S.R. No. 96/2009 Supreme Court Act 1986 Supreme Court Library Rules 2009 The Judges of the Supreme Court make the following Rules: 1 Object The object of these Rules is to make Rules with respect to the Supreme Court Library. 2 Authorising provisions These Rules are made under section 25 of the Supreme Court Act 1986 and all other enabling powers. 3 Commencement These Rules come into operation on 29 September 2009. 4 Revocation The Supreme Court Library Rules 1999 1 are revoked. 5 Definitions In these Rules— Committee means the Supreme Court Library Committee established by Rule 6; local legal practitioner has the same meaning as in section 1.2.3 of the Legal Profession Act 2004. -- 2 of 6 -- S.R. No. 96/2009 Supreme Court Library Rules 2009 2 6 Supreme Court Library Committee The Supreme Court Library shall be under the control of a committee called the "Supreme Court Library Committee". 7 Composition of committee (1) The Committee shall consist of— (a) the Chief Justice; and (b) three Judges of the Supreme Court who shall be appointed from time to time as members of the Committee by the Council of Judges; and (c) four local legal practitioners who shall be appointed by the Council of Judges in December of each year to act during the ensuing year. (2) The Council of the Law Institute of Victoria and the Victorian Bar Council may each nominate two local legal practitioners for appointment to the Committee. (3) In the event of a vacancy occurring during the year, the Council of Judges may fill that vacancy. 8 Quorum The Committee shall meet at such times and places as the Chief Justice, or in the absence of the Chief Justice the senior Judge available, directs and four members shall be a quorum. 9 Alternates A judicial member of the Committee may appoint a Judge of the Supreme Court to be an alternative or substitute member in the place of the appointor during such period as the appointor thinks fit and any person so appointed may exercise all the powers of the appointor in place of the appointor. r. 6 -- 3 of 6 -- S.R. No. 96/2009 Supreme Court Library Rules 2009 3 10 Voting The Chief Justice or, in the absence of the Chief Justice, the senior judicial member of the Committee present at a meeting of the Committee shall have both a deliberative and a casting vote. 11 Secretary Unless some other person is appointed so to act, the Librarian shall be Secretary to the Committee. 12 Rules (1) The Committee may make recommendations to the Judges of the Supreme Court for Rules to be made by the Judges providing for the management and good government of the library and penalties for breaches of the Rules. (2) Subject to the Rules, members of the legal profession of Victoria shall have access to the library. 13 Transitional The members of the Supreme Court Library Committee established by the Supreme Court Library Rules 1999 who were in office immediately before the commencement of these Rules, subject to these Rules— (a) hold office, as members of the Committee on and after that commencement for the balance of their period of appointment; and (b) are eligible for re-appointment. Dated: 27 August 2009 M. L. WARREN, C.J. CHRISTOPHER MAXWELL, P. DAVID ASHLEY, J.A. MARCIA NEAVE, J.A. r. 10 -- 4 of 6 -- S.R. No. 96/2009 Supreme Court Library Rules 2009 4 ROBERT REDLICH, J.A. MARK WEINBERG, J.A. PHILIP MANDIE, J.A. BERNARD D. BONGIORNO, J.A. P. D. CUMMINS, J. DAVID BYRNE, J. D. L. HARPER, J. H. R. HANSEN, J. D. J. HABERSBERGER, J. R. S. OSBORN, J. STEPHEN KAYE, J. SIMON P. WHELAN, J. ELIZABETH HOLLINGWORTH, J. KEVIN H. BELL, J. BETTY JUNE KING, J. ANTHONY CAVANOUGH, J. ELIZABETH CURTAIN, J. TONY PAGONE, J. ROSS ROBSON, J. JACK FORREST, J. LEX LASRY, J. JAMES JUDD, J. PETER VICKERY, J. DAVID F. R. BEACH, J. JENNIFER DAVIES, J. ═══════════════ -- 5 of 6 -- S.R. No. 96/2009 Supreme Court Library Rules 2009 5 ENDNOTES 1 Rule 4: S.R. No. 118/1999. Endnotes -- 6 of 6 --