Criminal Procedure Amendment Regulations 2017 (WA)

4568 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 25 August 2017

Regulations 2017.

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Criminal Procedure Act 2004

Criminal Procedure Amendment

Regulations 2017

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.       Citation

These regulations are the Criminal Procedure Amendment

25 August 2017 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 4569

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.

4.    Regulation 5A amended

(1)	Delete regulation 5A(1) and insert:
(1) A court may issue any of the following warrants by means of the courts electronic system —

(a)	arrest warrants;
(b)	remand warrants;
(c)	warrants to imprison a witness.

(2)	In regulation 5A(2), (3) and (4) delete -arrest-.
Note The heading to amended regulation 5A is to read:

Warrants issued electronically

R. NEILSON, Clerk of the Executive Council.