New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT 1899 - SECT 94

94 Power of Registrar

(1) The Registrar shall subject to the rules of Court have the following powers:

(a) to tax costs subject to review by the Court as at common law

(b) to settle issues

(c) to settle deeds directed by the Court to be executed by the parties

(d) to extend the time within which proceedings may be filed in undefended suits

(e) to allow proceedings to be taken or defended in formâ pauperis

(f) to examine witnesses in alimony applications and report the result of the said examinations to the Court

(g) to discharge such other administrative functions in the matrimonial causes jurisdiction as are discharged by the Prothonotary at common law

(h) to exercise the powers and jurisdiction delegated to him under this Act.

(2) In this section "registrar" includes deputy-registrar.