Suitors' Fund Amendment Regulations 2020 (WA)

4808 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 24 December 2020

JUSTICE

JU301

Suitors' Fund Act 1964

Suitors' Fund Amendment Regulations 2020

SL 2020/261

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.     Citation

These regulations are the Suitors ' Fund Amendment
Regulations 2020.

2.    Commencement

These regulations come into operation on the day on which the operation.

3. Regulations amended
These regulations amend the Suitors ' Fund Regulations 1965.

4.      Regulation 15 replaced

Delete regulation 15 and insert:

15.     Amount of levy prescribed (Act s. 5(1))

(1) In this regulation —
courtfee regulations means —

in section 5(1)(c) of the Act.

(a) the Children's Court (Fees) Regulations 2005;

or

(b)	the District Court (Fees) Regulations 2002; or
(c)	the Magistrates Court (Fees) Regulations 2005;

or

(d) the Supreme Court (Fees) Regulations 2002;

relevant process means —

(a) a writ of summons referred to in section 5(1)(a)

of the Act; or

(b)	a claim or originating process that commences
a case referred to in section 5(1)(b) of the Act; or
(c)	a summons or court hearing notice referred to

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(2)	For the purposes of section 5(1) of the Act, the amount
of $3.00 is prescribed for a relevant process.
(3)	Subregulation (2) does not apply to a relevant process
if, under court fee regulations —

(a) no fee is payable in respect of the filing or

issuing of the relevant process; or

(b) a fee is payable in respect of the filing or

issuing of the relevant process and —

(i)if the fee is payable by an individual —

it is the eligible individual fee; or

(ii) if the fee is payable by an entity — it is

the eligible entity fee.

N. HAGLEY, Clerk of the Executive Council.