Juries Amendment Act 1997 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

JURIES AMENDMENT ACT 1997

No. 34 of 1997

AN ACT to amend the Juries Act 1957 to enable certain

procedures to be performed by computer.

[Assented to 31 October 1997.]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1.   This Act may be cited as the Juries Amendment Act 1997.

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Commencement

2.   This Act comes into operation on such day as is fixed by

proclamation.

Principal Act

3. In this Act the Juries Act 1957* is referred to as the

principal Act.

[* Reprinted as at 2 December 1987.

For subsequent amendments, see 1996 Index to Legislation of Western Australia, Table 1, pp. 117-8, and Act No. 2 of 1996.]

Section 32F amended

4. Section 32F of the principal Act is amended by inserting

after subsection (2) the following subsection —

‘‘

(3) The procedure set out in subsection (1) may, to the

extent that it can be performed by computer instead of by

manual performance, be performed by computer.

’’.

Section 32FA amended

5.   Section 32FA of the principal Act is amended by inserting

after —

(a) thesectiondesignation‘‘32FA.’’thefollowing subsection designation —

‘‘ (1) ’’; and

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(b) the existing section the following subsection —

‘‘

The procedure set out in subsection (1) may, to the extent that it can be performed by computer instead of by manual performance, be performed by computer.

(2)

’’.

Section 32H amended

6. Section 32H of the principal Act is amended by inserting

after subsection (6) the following subsection —

‘‘

The procedures set out in subsections (1), (2), (3) and (5) may, to the extent that they can be performed by computer instead of by manual performance, be performed by computer.

(7)

’’.

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By Authority: JOHN A. STRIJK, Government Printer