Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts A competent court
hearing any application may —
(a) hear
the application in such manner as it considers best suited to the purposes of
this Act;
(b)
decline to entertain the application if it considers that the application is
frivolous;
(c)
proceed to hear and determine the application in the absence of any party
thereto;
(d)
where a person contravenes subsection (2) of section 19, issue a
warrant to bring the person before a competent court for the purposes of
subsection (1) of that section;
(e)
order the refund to a person of a fee paid under section 18(1) by that
person;
(f)
extend or shorten any period prescribed by or under this Act within which any
application or other step in respect of proceedings must be made or taken,
such power to extend a period being exercisable notwithstanding that that
period has expired;
(g) vary
or set aside any order where it considers there are proper grounds for doing
so;
(h)
adjourn the hearing to any time or place or to a time and place to be fixed;
(i)
allow the amendment of the application;
(j) hear
the application jointly with any other application;
(k)
receive in evidence any transcript of evidence in proceedings before the court
or any other court and draw any conclusions of fact therefrom that it
considers proper;
(l)
adopt, as it considers proper, any findings, decision or judgment of the court
or any other court that may be relevant to the proceedings; and
(m)
generally give all such directions and do all such things that it thinks
necessary or expedient in the proceedings.
[Section 20 amended by No. 50 of 1988
s. 12 and 18; No. 59 of 2004 s. 120(1) and (2) and 121.]