MAGISTRATES' COURT ACT 1989 - SECT 18 Register
MAGISTRATES' COURT ACT 1989 - SECT 18
Register(1) The principal registrar must cause a register to be kept of all the orders of the Court and of such other matters as are directed by this Act or the Rules to be entered in the register.
(2) An order made by the Court must be authenticated by the person who constituted the Court.
S. 18(3) amended by No. 58/2013 s. 49.
(3) Any person may, subject to any order made under Part 3 of the Open Courts Act 2013 and on payment of the prescribed fee, inspect that part of the register that contains the final orders of the Court.
(4) A party to a proceeding may inspect without charge that part of the register that relates to that proceeding.
(5) A document purporting to be an extract from the register and purporting to be signed by a registrar who certifies that in his or her opinion the extract is a true extract from the register is admissible in evidence in any proceedings and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, is proof of the matters appearing in the extract.