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Section 126 — Senior Courts Act 2016: Seniority of Associate Judges
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126 Seniority of Associate Judges (1) Associate Judges are senior to each other in order of date of appointment. (2) If 2 or more Associate Judges have the same date of appointment, then seniority among those Judges is determined according to— (a) the precedence assigned to them by the Governor-General on appointment; or (b) if no precedence was assigned to them, the order in which they took the judicial oath.
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