District Court of Western Australia Act Amendment Act 1975 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

DISTRICT COURT OF

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

No. 58 of 1975.

AN ACT to amend the District Court of Western

Australia Act, 1969-1974.

[Assented to 24th October, 1975.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the District Court Llicoirt title

of Western Australia Act Amendment Act, 1975. citation.

(2) In this Act the District Court of Western Reprinted

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act of 1974.

may be cited as the District Court of Western

Australia Act, 1969-1975.

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Commence-

ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on a date

to be fixed by proclamation.

Section 19

amended. 3. Section 19 of the principal Act is amended

(a) as to subsection (2), by deleting the passage ", or discontinue the holding of the Court at any such place", in lines three and four;

(b) as to subsection (6)-

(i)   by adding after the word "day", in the last line, the words "or the next sitting of the Court"; and

(ii)   by substituting for the words "that Judge" in the last line the words "a District Court Judge"; and

(c) by adding subsections as follows

(7) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (1) to (6) inclusive of this section, the Court and District Court Judges may sit and act at any time and at any place, for the transaction of any part of the business of the Court or a District Court Judge, or for the discharge of any duty which by any statute or otherwise is required to be discharged.

(8)

Where a sitting of the Court is to be held at a place other than Perth, the Registrar of the Court at that place shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the District Court Judge on the first day of the sittings a calendar of all prisoners in custody for trial or sentence at that sitting (wherever the prisoners are confined) and shall bring up or cause to be brought up every such prisoner to the Court, there to be dealt with according to law. .

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Section 41

4. Subsection (3) of section 41 of the principal amended.

Act is repealed and re-enacted as follows

(3) Where the Court is sitting at a place other than Perth, the jury books or lists made under the Juries Act, 1957 for a Circuit Court, within the meaning of that Act, at that place shall be the jury books or lists for the Court and the provisions of that Act apply to the Court as though it were a Circuit Court. .