COUNTY COURT ACT 1958 - SECT 7 Where court held and days of sitting
COUNTY COURT ACT 1958 - SECT 7
Where court held and days of sittingS. 7(1) amended by Nos 8625 s. 3, 24/2008 s. 46(2).
(1) At each place at which the Governor in Council directs that the court be held a judge or, subject to the Rules, an associate judge shall attend and hold the court on such days and at such time as the Chief Judge from time to time appoints.
S. 7(2) substituted by No. 7705 s. 4(a).
(2) Notice of the days on which the court will commence sitting at each such place shall be published in the Government Gazette.
S. 7(3) amended by Nos 7705 s. 4(b), 8625 s. 3.
(3) The Chief Judge may from time to time alter the days and times for the holding of the court at any place, and when any day so appointed is altered, notice of the intended alteration and of the time when it will take effect shall be published in the Government Gazette.
S. 7(4) amended by Nos 20/2004 s. 13, 24/2008 s. 46(3), 68/2009 s. 97(Sch. item 35.10), 33/2018 s. 60.
(4) If a judge or an associate judge, as the case requires does not arrive at the court house before one o'clock in the afternoon of any day upon which the holding of the court has been fixed the registrar may open the court and adjourn the same to the following day or to such other day as he is directed by a judge or an associate judge, as the case requires either by signed order or by other electronic communication and extend the bail of a person attending on that day in relation to a criminal proceeding in respect of which the person has been granted bail to the day to which the court is adjourned.
Division 3—Judges
No. 6117 s. 8.