DISTRICT COURT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA ACT 1969 - SECT 19
DISTRICT COURT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA ACT 1969 - SECT 19
19 . Places and times
(1) The Court shall be
held at Perth in the State and such other places in the State as the Governor
may, from time to time, by proclamation determine.
(2) The Governor may,
by subsequent proclamation, cancel or alter a place so determined for the
holding of the Court.
(3) A District Court
judge nominated by the Chief Judge shall attend and hold the Court at any
place at which the Governor so determines that the Court be held, on such days
and at such times as the Chief Judge, from time to time, appoints.
(3a) There shall be a
registry of the Court at each place where the Court is held and the principal
registry shall be at Perth.
(4) Notice of the days
on which and the times at which the Court is to be held at any place shall be
published in the Government Gazette , and the notice shall be exhibited in a
conspicuous place in the court house and in the registry of the Court at the
place where the Court is to be held, and no other notice thereof is required,
unless a District Court judge otherwise directs.
(5) 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 such day is so altered, notice of the intended
alteration and the time it is to take effect, shall be exhibited in a
conspicuous place in the court house at that place and in the registry of the
Court at that place.
(6) When the District
Court judge who is to hold the Court does not attend at the time appointed for
any sitting thereof a registrar thereof may open the Court and adjourn it to
the following day or such other day or the next sitting of the Court as he is
directed by a District Court judge.
(7) Notwithstanding
the provisions of subsections (1) to (6) inclusive, the Court and District
Court judges may sit and act at any time and at any place, for the transaction
of any part of the business of the Court or a District Court judge, or for the
discharge of any duty which by any statute or otherwise is required to be
discharged.
(8) Where a sitting of
the Court is to be held at a place other than Perth, a registrar of the Court
at the place shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the District Court
judge on the first day of the sittings a calendar of all prisoners in custody
for trial or sentence at that sitting (wherever the prisoners are confined)
and shall bring up or cause to be brought up every such prisoner to the Court,
there to be dealt with according to law.
[Section 19 amended: No. 58 of 1975 s. 3; No. 122
of 1984 s. 13; No. 53 of 1992 s. 9(3).]