SUPREME COURT (CRIMINAL PROCEDURE) RULES 2017 - REG 3A.15 Reference of application or matter to judicial registrar

SUPREME COURT (CRIMINAL PROCEDURE) RULES 2017 - REG 3A.15

    (1)     Notwithstanding Rule 1.16, if an application or matter under this Order is before a Judge of the Court or an Associate Judge, and the application or matter would not otherwise be within the authority of a judicial registrar, and the application or matter appears to the Judge or the Associate Judge to be proper for the determination of a judicial registrar, the Judge or the Associate Judge, by order, may refer the application or matter to a judicial registrar.

    (2)     If a Judge of the Court or an Associate Judge refers an application or matter to a judicial registrar under paragraph (1), the judicial registrar may—

        (a)     hear and determine the application or matter, subject to any directions in the order referring the application or matter; or

        (b)     refer the application or matter back to the Judge or Associate Judge for determination.

    (3)     In hearing and determining an application or matter referred by a Judge of the Court or Associate Judge to a judicial registrar—

        (a)     the judicial registrar constitutes the Trial Division of the Court for that purpose; and

        (b)     subject to any directions in the order referring the application or matter, all the powers of the Trial Division of the Court in relation to the hearing and determination of such an application or matter are delegated to the judicial registrar.

Rule 3A.16 inserted by S.R. No. 32/2018 rule 35.