5   Compensation Court judges

(1)  On the repeal of the Compensation Court Act:

(a)  a person holding office as a Judge (other than the Chief Judge) of the Compensation Court immediately before that repeal is by this section appointed as a Judge of the District Court, and

(b)  a person holding office as an Acting Judge of the Compensation Court immediately before that repeal is by this section appointed as an Acting Judge of the District Court for the time that is the remainder of the time for which he or she was appointed an Acting Judge of the Compensation Court, as at that repeal.

(2)  The Governor may issue an appropriate commission under the public seal of the State to a person who is appointed as a Judge of the District Court by subsection (1). The appointment is effective whether or not such a commission is issued.

(3)  Nothing in this section prevents a person who holds office as a Judge of the Compensation Court from being appointed as a Judge of any other Court.

(4)  Nothing in this section affects any entitlement of the Chief Judge of the Compensation Court arising under section 56 (Abolition of judicial office) of the Constitution Act 1902.