THE TERRITORY OF COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS
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Supreme Court (Amendment) Ordinance 1987
No. 2 of 1987
I,. THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955.
Dated 18 September 1987.
J. A ROWLAND
Administrator
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for the Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories
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An Ordinance to amend the Supreme Court Ordinance 1955
Short title
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Supreme Court (Amendment) Ordinance 1987.1
Principal Ordinance
2. In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Supreme Court Ordinance 1955.2
Principal seat and sittings
3. Section 16 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by inserting after subsection (3) the following subsection:
“(4) Sittings of the Supreme Court may be held at a place in Australia outside the Territory for the purpose of hearing and determining a matter, otherwise than in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, if the Court is satisfied that the hearing of the matter outside the Territory is not contrary to the interests of justice.”.
Registries
4. Section 17 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by inserting “, either within the Territory or at places in Australia outside the Territory,” after “Court”.
Registrar and other officers
5. Section 18 of the Principal Ordinance is amended:
(a) by inserting “Deputy Registrars and” after “such”; and
(b) by adding the following subsections:
“(2) A Deputy Registrar has and may exercise all the powers, and may perform all the functions, of the Registrar.
“(3) Where a power or duty is conferred or imposed by law, including subsection (2), on a Deputy Registrar, that Deputy Registrar may exercise that power or perform that duty either within the Territory or at a place in Australia outside the Territory.”.
NOTES
1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 24 September 1987.
2. No. 4, 1955 as amended by No. 3, 1963; No. 2, 1976; No. 1, 1982.