Victorian Consolidated Regulations

MAGISTRATES' COURT GENERAL REGULATIONS 2000

S.R. No. 69/2000
Version incorporating amendments as at 3 September 2009

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Regulation Page

   PART 1-PRELIMINARY

   101.    Objectives
   102.    Authorising provision
   103.    Commencement
   104.    Revocation
   105.    Definition

   PART 2-APPOINTMENTS

   201.    Oath of office
   202.    Bail justices

   PART 3-THE COURT RECORD

   301.    Authentication of orders
   302.    Issue and authentication of process
   303.    Authentication of warrants
   304.    Particulars of warrants to be entered in the register
   305.    Issue of some warrants to seize property
   306.    Issue of some penalty enforcement warrants

   PART 4-PERIN COURT, APPEARANCE BY AUDIO
   VISUAL LINK

   401.    Revoked
   402.    Appearance by audio visual link

   PART 5-DOCUMENTS

   501.    Content and form of documents

   PART 6-SERVICE

   601.    Offences for which a summons may be served by post
   602.    Last known place of residence or business
   603.    Service of civil process by a member of the police force

   PART 6A-PRE-HEARING DISCLOSURE

   650.    Pre-hearing disclosure by electronic transmission

   PART 7-WITNESS SUMMONSES IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

   701.    Form of witness summons

   PART 8-SUMMONSES ISSUED BY INFORMANT

   801.    Issue of summons-prescribed persons and prescribed
           summary offences
   802.    Revoked

   PART 8A-ENFORCEMENT OF FINES

   850.    Definitions
   851.    Proper officers
   852.    Application for time to pay, instalment order or variation of instalment order
   853.    Consideration of application
   854.    Determination of the application
   855.    Enforcement of fines against a natural person
   856.    Declaration of liability of a director for offence of body
           corporate
   857.    Enforcement of fine against body corporate

   PART 9-WARRANTS TO SEIZE PROPERTY

   901.    Application
   902.    Form of warrant
   903.    Execution of warrant
   904.    Form of pre-hearing disclosure notice

   PART 10-Revoked

           1001-1003 Revoked

   PART 11-COMMITTAL PROCEEDINGS

   1101.   Time limits applicable to certain committal proceedings
   1102.   Caution

   PART 12-Revoked

           1201-1216 Revoked

   PART 13-FORMS

   1301.   Prescribed forms
   1302.   Advice in other languages
   1302A.  Notice concerning outline of evidence and clause 6 of Schedule 2 of the Act
   1303.   Non-compliance with prescribed forms
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           SCHEDULE 1-Revocations
           SCHEDULE 2-Oaths of Office
           SCHEDULE 3-Prescribed Venues of the Court for the Purposes of Section 82 of the Magistrates' Court Act 1989.
           SCHEDULE 4-Areas in which a Member of the Police Force is
           Not Required to Serve Process in a Civil Proceeding
           SCHEDULE 5-Forms in Criminal Proceedings
           Form 1-Witness Summons
           Form 2-Warrant to Seize Property
           Form 3-Important: Do Not Ignore this Document
           Form 4-Certified Extract
           Form 5-Charge
           Form 6-Continuation of Charges
           Form 7-Charge and Summons
           Form 8-Charge and Warrant to Arrest
           Form 9-Affidavit/Declaration of Service of Summons to
           Answer to a Charge
           Form 10-Brief of evidence
           Form 10A-Notice Accompanying an Outline of Evidence
           Form 11-Warrant to Arrest
           Form 12-Remand Warrant
           Form 13-Warrant to Imprison
           Form 14-Warrant to Imprison
           Form 15-Search Warrant
           Form 16-Notice of Committal Mention Date
           Form 17-Election to Stand Trial without a Committal
           Proceeding being Conducted
           Form 18-Application for a Rehearing
           Form 19-Notice
           6, 7-Revoked
           SCHEDULE 8-Payment and Enforcement of Fines
           Form 1-Application for Time to Pay a Fine
           Form 2-Application for Community-based Order
           Form 3-Community-based Order in Default of Payment of a Fine
           Form 4-Notice about the Procedure for Enforcement of Fines
           Form 5-Consent to the Making of a Community-based Order for Unpaid Work in Lieu of Payment of a Fine
           Form 6-Summons for Failure to Pay a Fine
           Form 7-Notice about the Procedure for Enforcement of a
           Fine (bodies corporate)
           SCHEDULE 9-Revoked
           SCHEDULE 10-Government Enforcement Agencies
           SCHEDULE 11-Revoked
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           ENDNOTES
   1.      General Information
   2.      Table of Amendments
   3.      Explanatory Details