District Court Amendment (Electronic Case Management) Rule 2014 (NSW)

New South Wales

District Court Amendment (Electronic Case

Management) Rule 2014

under the

District Court Act 1973

The District Court Rule Committee has made the following rule of court under the District Court

Act 1973.

A Grew

Secretary to the Rule Committee

Explanatory note

The object of this Rule is to make provision for the use of JusticeLink (an electronic case management system established under the Electronic Transactions Act 2000) for the issuing of arrest warrants by the District Court where the use of JusticeLink is authorised by an order in force under clause 3 of Schedule 1 to the Electronic Transactions Act 2000.

District Court Amendment (Electronic Case Management) Rule

2014

under the

District Court Act 1973

1      Name of Rule

This Rule is the District Court Amendment (Electronic Case Management) Rule
2014.

2      Commencement

This Rule commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

Schedule 1 Amendment of District Court Rules 1973

Part 53 Criminal procedure rules

Insert after Division 3:

Division 4 Electronic case management

29      Definitions

In this Division:
ECM system means JusticeLink.
JusticeLink means the electronic case management system of that name
established under clause 2 of Schedule 1 to the Electronic Transactions Act
2000.

30      Application of this Division

This Division applies to criminal proceedings before the District Court for which the ECM system is authorised by an order in force under clause 3 of Schedule 1 to the Electronic Transactions Act 2000.

31      Electronic issuing of an arrest warrant

(1)	The court may issue an arrest warrant by means of the ECM system.
(2)	The date of issue of an arrest warrant must be set out in the warrant.
(3)	When issued by means of the ECM system, an arrest warrant that is required to be signed by a person is taken to have been duly authenticated for the purposes of clause 5 of Schedule 1 to the Electronic Transactions Act 2000 if the person’s name is printed where his or her signature would otherwise appear.