Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FEDERAL MAGISTRATES ACT 1999 - SECT 91

             (1)  The Chief Federal Magistrate may arrange with the chief executive officer (however described) of:

                     (a)  an agency of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; or

                     (b)  another organisation;

for an employee or employees of the agency or organisation to:

                     (c)  receive, on behalf of the Federal Magistrates Court, documents to be lodged with or filed in the Federal Magistrates Court; or

                     (d)  perform, on behalf of the Federal Magistrates Court, other non‑judicial functions of the Federal Magistrates Court.

             (2)  If an arrangement under subsection (1) is in force in relation to the performance by an employee of an agency or organisation of a function on behalf of the Federal Magistrates Court, the employee may perform that function despite any other provision of this Act or any other law of the Commonwealth.

             (3)  A function performed on behalf of the Federal Magistrates Court in accordance with an arrangement under subsection (1) has effect as if the function had been performed by the Federal Magistrates Court.

             (4)  Copies of an arrangement under subsection (1) are to be made available for inspection by members of the public.