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205: Age of retirement
or “Judges must stop working when they turn 70 years old.”
You could also call this:

“How judges get paid and what extra money they can receive for their work”

You should know about how judges in the Employment Court get paid. The government pays each judge a salary and some extra money called allowances. The Remuneration Authority decides how much salary and some of the allowances should be. The Governor-General can also decide on other small allowances for things like travel.

The Chief Judge might get more money than the other judges. This is because they have a more important job.

Once a judge starts their job, their salary can’t be lowered. This helps make sure judges can make fair decisions without worrying about their pay being cut.

If a judge works part-time, they get paid a portion of what a full-time judge would get. This isn’t considered lowering their salary.

When the Governor-General decides on the extra allowances, they can say when these start. It could be from the day they make the decision, or from an earlier or later date. If they don’t say when it starts, it begins on the day they make the decision.

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Next up: 207: Appointment of acting Judges

or “The Governor-General can choose people to be temporary judges for a short time when they are needed.”
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Part 10 Institutions
Judges of the court

206Salaries and allowances of Judges

  1. There is to be paid to each Judge of the court, out of public money, without further appropriation than this section,—

  2. a salary at such rate as the Remuneration Authority from time to time determines; and
    1. such allowances as are from time to time determined by the Remuneration Authority; and
      1. such additional allowances, being travelling allowances or other incidental or minor allowances, as may be determined from time to time by the Governor-General.

        1. In the case of the Chief Judge, the rate of salary and the allowances determined may be higher than those for the other Judges.

        2. The salary of a Judge is not to be reduced while the Judge holds office.

        3. The salary and allowances payable for a period during which a Judge acts on a part-time basis must be calculated and paid as a pro rata proportion of the salary and allowances for a full-time equivalent position.

        4. For the purpose of subsection (3), the payment of salary and allowances on a pro rata basis under subsection (3A) is not a reduction of salary.

        5. Any determination made under subsection (1)(c), and any provision of any such determination, may be made so as to come into force on a date specified in the determination, being the date of the making of the determination or any other date, whether before or after the date of the making of the determination or the date of the commencement of this section.

        6. Every determination made under subsection (1)(c), and every provision of any such determination, in respect of which no date is specified under subsection (4) comes into force on the date of the making of the determination.

        Compare
        • 1991 No 22 s 115
        Notes
        • Section 206(1)(a): amended, on , by section 4(1) of the Remuneration Authority (Members of Parliament) Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 54).
        • Section 206(1)(b): amended, on , by section 4(1) of the Remuneration Authority (Members of Parliament) Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 54).
        • Section 206(3A): inserted, on , by section 5 of the Employment Relations Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 43).
        • Section 206(3B): inserted, on , by section 5 of the Employment Relations Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 43).