Local Courts Act Amendment Act 1909 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO NONO

E_DWARDI SEPTIIVII REGIS,

X V.

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No. 19 of 1909.

AN ACT to amend the Local Courts Act, 1904.

[Assented to 6th February, 1909.]

E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and

with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia. in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1.     This Act may be cited as the Local Courts Act Amendment Short title.

Act, 1909, and shall be read as one with the Local Courts Act, 1901,

hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

Section forty-five of the principal Act is amended by inserting a subsection as follows :-

Amendment of

section 45 of No.

51, 1901.

2.

(2a.) Any such judgment may be entered up by the magistrate or the clerk. and the clerk shall have the same power to hear and determine any question necessary to be heard and determined, and to make any order as to payment, and to enter up such judgment as the judgment of the Court, as the magistrate would have.

3.      Section seventy-three of the principal Act is amended by Amendment of

adding a paragraph as follows :—	section 73.
.1 udgment under paragraph (a) of this section may be entered by the magistrate or the clerk ; and the clerk shall have the same power to hear and determine any question necessary to be heard and determined. and to make any order as to payment, and to enter up the judgment as the judgment of the Court, as the magistrate would have.

1909, No. 19. Local Courts—Amendment. [9 EDW. VII.

Amendment of 4. Section one hundred and twenty-one of the principal Act is

section 121.

amended by striking out the words " given by a magistrate" and

inserting in place thereof the words " entered up or given."

Amendment of 5.

Section one hundred and thirty-three of the principal Act is amended by striking out the words " to the prison nearest to the place where he was arrested," and inserting in place thereof " to a prison in pursuance of the said warrant."

section 133.

The principal Act shall, as from the commencement thereof, be deemed to have had effect as amended by this Act ; and as from the commencement of the principal Act all judgments entered up under the provisions of section forty-five or paragraph (a) of section seventy-three thereof by a clerk are hereby declared to be as valid to all intents and purposes as if such judgments had been entered

Effect of amend- 6.

ments.

up by the magistrate..

By Authority : FRED. WM. SIMPSON, Government Printer, Perth.