Western Australian Numbered Acts

COURTS AND TRIBUNALS (ELECTRONIC PROCESSES FACILITATION) ACT 2013 (NO. 20 OF 2013) - SECT 53

53 .         Section 173 replaced

                Delete section 173 and insert:

173.         Unauthorised documents

                A person must not —

            (a)         sign or authenticate a prosecution notice, indictment, summons, court hearing notice or witness summons, knowing that he or she is not authorised to do so; or

            (b)         lodge a prosecution notice or an indictment knowing —

                  (i)         that it has been signed by a person who is not authorised to sign it; or

                  (ii)         that it has been authenticated by a person who is not authorised to authenticate it.

        Penalty: imprisonment for 12 months or a fine of $12 000.