Stipendiary Magistrates Amendment Act (No. 2) 1990 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATES

AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2)

No. 89 of 1990

AN ACT to amend the Stipendiary Magistrates Act 1957.

[Assented to 20 December 1990.]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Stipendiary Magistrates

Amendment Act (No. 2) 1990.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it

receives the Royal Assent.

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Principal Act

3. In this Act the Stipendiary Magistrates Act 1957* is referred to

as the principal Act.

['Approved for reprint 21 January 1981 and amended by Acts

Nos. 7 of 1982; 74 of 1986 and 49 of 1988.]

Section 3 amended

4. Section 3 of the principal Act is amended in the definition of "stipendiary magistrate" by inserting after "Chief Stipendiary Magistrate" the following-

" and Deputy Chief Stipendiary Magistrate ".

Section 4 amended

5. Section 4 of the principal Act is amended

(a) in subsection (4) by inserting after "Chief Stipendiary Magistrate" the following-

" and one to be Deputy Chief Stipendiary

Magistrate ";

(b) in subsection (5), by inserting after "Chief Stipendiary Magistrate" the following-

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, the Deputy Chief Stipendiary Magistrate ".

Section 5A amended

6. Section 5A of the principal Act is amended in paragraph (c) by

deleting "sixty" and substituting the following-

" fifty-five ".

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Section 5C amended

7. Section 5C of the principal Act is amended by inserting after

subsection (1) the following subsection-

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(la) Where the Chief Stipendiary Magistrate is absent from duty and no appointment is made under subsection (1) the Deputy Chief Stipendiary Magistrate may act as Chief Stipendiary Magistrate. ".