Western Australian Numbered Acts

COURTS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT AND REPEAL ACT 2004 (NO. 59 OF 2004) - SECT 76

76 .         Other amendments

                The Act is amended as set out in the Table to this section.

Table

s. 3	Delete the definition of “coroner’s clerk” and insert instead — “         "coroner’s registrar" means a person referred to in section 12; ”.
s. 6(3)	Delete “Chief Stipendiary Magistrate appointed under the Stipendiary Magistrates Act 1957 ” and insert instead — “ Chief Magistrate of the Magistrates Court ”.
s. 10 s. 13 s. 15 s. 26(1) s. 45(2)	In each provision delete “clerk” in each place it occurs and in each place insert instead — “ registrar ”.
Part 2 Division 3	In the heading to Division 3 delete “clerks” and insert instead — “ registrars ”.
s. 21(1)	Delete “Subject to section 10 of the Stipendiary Magistrates Act 1957 ,” and insert instead — “         With the prior approval of the Chief Magistrate of the Magistrates Court, ”.
s. 46(4)	After “the person” insert — “ and bring him or her before a coroner ”.
s. 46(5)	Repeal the subsection and insert instead — “         (5)         If under a warrant issued under subsection (4) a person is brought before a coroner, the coroner may order that the person be kept in custody until it is practicable to take or receive evidence from the person, but in any event for not longer than 7 days. ”.