Qualification of judicial officers

(1) A person shall not be qualified for appointment as a judge unless that person— (a) is, or has been, a judge of a court having unlimited jurisdiction in criminal or civil proceedings; or (b) is entitled to practise as a legal practitioner or an advocate or a solicitor in such a court and has been entitled so to practise for not less than ten years. (2) For the purposes of this section, a person shall be regarded as entitled to practise as a legal practitioner or an advocate or a solicitor if that person has been called, enrolled or otherwise admitted as such and has not been subsequently disbarred or removed from the roll of legal practitioners or advocates or solicitors notwithstanding that the person— (a) holds or acts in any office the holder of which is, by reason of his or her office, precluded from practising in court; or (b) does not hold a practising certificate and has not satisfied any other like condition of his or her being permitted to practise.