FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1993
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JUDICIAL OFFICERS (TENURE OF OFFICE) BILL GAZETTED
THE JUDICIAL OFFICERS (TENURE OF OFFICE) BILL, WHICH SEEKS TO REPLACE EXISTING PROCEDURES IN THE COLONIAL REGULATIONS FOR DISCIPLINE OF JUDICIAL OFFICERS OTHER THAN JUDGES, WAS GAZETTED TODAY (FRIDAY).
JUDICIAL OFFICERS COVERED BY THE BILL INCLUDE THE REGISTRAR, DEPUTY AND ASSISTANT REGISTRARS OF THE SUPREME COURT, MAGISTRATES, PRESIDING OFFICERS OF THE LABOUR TRIBUNAL, MEMBERS OF THE LANDS TRIBUNAL, ADJUDICATORS OF THE SMALL CLAIMS TRIBUNAL AND CORONERS.
"THESE JUDICIAL OFFICERS, ALONG WITH OTHER PUBLIC OFFICERS, ARE AT PRESENT SUBJECT TO THE DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES IN THE COLONIAL REGULATIONS. A JUDICIAL OFFICER MAY BE REMOVED FOR MISCONDUCT FOLLOWING AN INVESTIGATION UNDER THE PRESCRIBED GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN EXPLAINED.
PROCEDURES," A
HE SAID ΤΟ UNDERLINE THE INDEPENDENCE OF THESE JUDICIAL OFFICERS, IT WAS CONSIDERED THAT SEPARATE PROVISIONS FOR THEIR DISCIPLINE AND REMOVAL SHOULD BE EMBODIED IN LEGISLATION PROVIDING
FOR THEIR TENURE OF OFFICE, RATHER THAN IN THE COLONIAL REGULATIONS.
THE BILL IS SCHEDULED TO BE
COUNCIL ON APRIL 28.
INTRODUCED INTO THE LEGISLATIVE
OPERATION TO STAMP OUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
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A TWO-DAY OPERATION AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION JOINTLY MOUNTED BY THE POLICE, THE LABOUR AND IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY HAS RESULTED IN THE ARRESTS OF 130 PERSONS.
THE OPERATION WAS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT'S ONGOING EFFORT TO FLUSH OUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
THE 124 SUSPECTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED BY THE POLICE HAD BEEN REFERRED TO THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT. THOSE FOUND TO BE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WILL BE REPATRIATED.
THE OTHER SIX
PERSONS
WERE ARRESTED BY IMMIGRATION
INVESTIGATORS.
A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN REITERATED TODAY (FRIDAY) WAS NO QUESTION OF ANY AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
"OUR LATEST OPERATION SHOULD DRIVE HOME THE POINT WILL BE NO CHANGE TO THIS POLICY. ANYONE FOOLISH ENOUGH OTHERWISE IS ONLY CHEATING HIMSELF,
1 HE SAID.
THAT THERE
THAT THERE ΤΟ BELIEVE
/THE SPOKESMAN
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