Supreme Court Amendment Act 1998 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

SUPREME COURT AMENDMENT

ACT 1998

No. 31 of 1998

AN ACT to amend the Supreme Court Act 1935.

[Assented to 3 July 1998.]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1.   This Act may be cited as the Supreme Court Amendment

Act 1998.

No. 31] Supreme Court Amendment Act 1998

s. 2

Commencement

2. This Act comes into operation on the day on which it

receives the Royal Assent.

Section 167 amended

3. Section 167 (1) of the Supreme Court Act 1935* is amended

by inserting after paragraph (d) the following paragraph —

‘‘

(da) For prescribing or regulating any matters relating to the costs of proceedings, where those costs are not the subject of a determination under section 58W of the Legal Practitioners Act 1893.

’’.

[* Reprinted as at 23 November 1995.

For subsequent amendments see 1996 Index to Legislation of Western Australia, Table 1, pp. 223-4 and Acts Nos. 23 and 57 of 1997.]

By Authority: JOHN A. STRIJK, Government Printer