Pursuant to sections 5 and 28b of the District Courts Act 1947, His Excellency the Governor-General, has been pleased to appoint Simon Grant Lockhart, Queen's Counsel of Auckland to be a District Court Judge, to exercise civil and criminal jurisdiction within New Zealand, and to exercise the criminal jurisdiction of the District Courts under Part IIa of the District Courts Act 1947. Dated at Wellington this 15th day of August 1996. D. A. M. GRAHAM, Minister of Justice.