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Supreme Court Library Rules 1998
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TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Rule Page
1. Object 1
2. Authorising provisions 1
3. Revocation 1
4. Supreme Court Library Committee 1
5. Composition of committee 1
6. Quorum 2
7. Alternates 2
8. Voting 2
9. Secretary 2
10. Rules 2
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STATUTORY RULES 1998
S.R. No. 51/1998
Supreme Court Act 1986
Supreme Court Library Rules 1998
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. Revocation
The Supreme Court Library Rules 19961 are
revoked.
4. Supreme Court Library Committee
The Supreme Court Library shall be under the
control of a committee called the "Supreme Court
Library Committee".
5. Composition of committee
The Committee shall consist of the Chief Justice
and 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 four
practising barristers and solicitors who shall be
appointed by the Judges of the Supreme Court on
1 May 1998 and thereafter in December of each
year to act during the ensuing year. The Council
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of the Law Institute of Victoria and the Victorian
Bar Council may each nominate two such
barristers and solicitors for appointment as
aforesaid. In the event of a vacancy occurring
during the year, the Judges may fill that vacancy.
6. Quorum
The Committee shall meet at such times and
places as the Chief Justice, or in his absence the
senior Judge available, directs and four members
shall be a quorum.
7. Alternates
A judicial member of the Committee may appoint
a Judge of the Supreme Court to be an alternative
or substitute member in his place during such
period as he thinks fit and any person so
appointed may exercise all the powers of the
appointor in place of the appointor.
8. Voting
The Chief Justice or in his absence the senior
judicial member of the Committee present at a
meeting of the Committee shall have both a
deliberative and a casting vote.
9. Secretary
Unless some other person is appointed so to act,
the Librarian shall be Secretary to the Committee.
10. Rules
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 thereof and, subject to the Rules,
members of the legal profession of Victoria shall
have access to the library.
Dated: 1 May 1998
r. 6 r. 10
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JOHN WINNEKE, P.
ROBERT BROOKING, J.A.
R. C. TADGELL, J.A.
W. F. ORMISTON, J.A.
JOHN D. PHILLIPS, J.A.
J. M. BATT, J.A.
SUSAN KENNY, J.A.
PETER BUCHANAN, J.A.
BARRY BEACH, J.
G. HAMPEL, J.
BERNARD G. TEAGUE, J.
P. D. CUMMINS, J.
T. H. SMITH, J.
JOHN J. HEDIGAN, J.
J. A. COLDREY, J.
DAVID BYRNE, J.
D. L. HARPER, J.
G. M. EAMES, J.
H. R. HANSEN, J.
PHILIP MANDIE, J.
ROSEMARY BALMFORD, J.
ALEX CHERNOV, J.
MURRAY B. KELLAM, J.
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NOTES
1 Rule 3: S.R. No. 59/1996.
Notes
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