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Fiji Judicature Compensation - Loss of Office Decree 1987

FIJI MILITARY GOVERNMENT

FIJI JUDICATURE COMPENSATION—LOSS OF OFFICE DECREE 1987 (NO. 23)

DECREE NO. 23

IN exercise of the powers vested in me as Commander and Head of the Fiji Military Government, I hereby make the following Decree:

1. This Decree may be cited as the Fiji Judicature Compensation - Loss of Office Decree 1987.

2. The Fiji Judicature Decree 1987 is hereby amended by inserting the following Section after Section 6:

"6A. All offices and office holders referred to in section 6 hereof and wherever referred to throughout this Decree whose appointment was the subject of a termination or retirement or dismissal by this Decree or an instrument given pursuant to or upon this Decree shall not be entitled to any monetary compensation for loss of office or loss of expectation or advantages or benefits arising therefrom. Nor shall such office holder be entitled to bring any suit, action or proceedings for damages for unlawful and/or unjust dismissal for loss of office in any court; nor any action, suit or proceedings for any related relief be it in the nature of judicial review or otherwise."

3. This Decree shall be deemed to have come into force on the 25th September 1987.

Dated this 2nd day of December 1987.

BRIGADIER-GENERAL SITIVENI LIGAMAMADA RABUKA, O.B.E.. (Mil.)
Commander and Head of the Fiji Military Government