Criminal Procedure Amendment Regulations 2016 (WA)

30 September 2016 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 4173

JUSTICE

.J C303

Criminal Procedure Act 2004

Criminal Procedure Amendment

Regulations 2016

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.           Citation

These regulations are the Criminal Procedure Amendment
Regulations 2016.

2.            Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows —

(a)	regulations 1 and 2— on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette;
(b)	the rest of the regulations — on the day after that day.

3.            Regulations amended

These regulations amend the Criminal Procedure
Regulations 2005.

(2) For the purposes of the Courts and Tribunals (Electronic Processes Facilitation) Act 2013

4.            Regulation 13B inserted

At the end of Part 4 Division 1 insert:

13B.	Recording of service information in service certificate
(1) In this regulation	—

specified document means any of the following
documents served on a person in accordance with the

CPA Schedule 2 —

(a)	a prosecution notice;
(b)	a court hearing notice;
(c)	a summons.

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section 11, an approved user who serves a named
person with a specified document may incorporate
electronically the service information to be recorded in
the service certificate by entering the information into

the courts electronic system.

(3) If subregulation (2) applies, the court may refer to the
service information incorporated electronically in the
service certificate in determining whether it is satisfied

that the accused has been served —

(a)	for the purposes of section 55(2) of the CPA; or
(b)	as the case may be, for the purposes of an application for an arrest warrant.

N. HAGLEY, Clerk of the Executive Council.