Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) A visiting justice
shall attend the prison for which he is appointed as soon as practicable upon
being notified by the superintendent that a charge of a prison offence has
been laid and shall —
(a) in
the case of a minor prison offence inquire into and dispose of the charge;
(b) in
the case of an aggravated prison offence, exercise the discretion conferred by
section 73.
(2) A visiting justice
shall use his best endeavours to complete the performance of his duties under
this section within 14 days of being notified in a particular case that a
charge of a prison offence has been laid.
(3) Where a charge of
a prison offence is laid against a prisoner but before the hearing of that
charge begins the prisoner is removed to another prison, a visiting justice
for that other prison shall have the powers and duties in relation to that
prisoner and that charge as if the charge had been laid at that other prison.