Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Subject to
subsection (2), where by or under the provisions of any Act, being
provisions in force immediately prior to the coming into operation of the Acts
Amendment (Master, Supreme Court) Act 1979 1 , it is provided that an
act of a procedural, administrative, or ministerial nature shall or may be
done by, or in relation to, the master that act shall or may, as the case
requires, be done by, or in relation to, the Principal Registrar.
(2)
Subsection (1) does not apply to or in relation to —
(a) the
Administration Act 1903 ;
[(b), (c) deleted]
(d) this
Act; or
(e) any
other Act which by rules of court is prescribed as an Act to which the
provisions of that subsection do not apply.
(3) Where by or under
any Act it is provided that costs shall or may be taxed by the master or the
taxing master of the Supreme Court, those costs shall or may, as the case
requires, be taxed by the taxing officer of the Court.
(4) Unless the context
otherwise requires, a reference in any other Act or in any regulation, rule,
local law, by-law, notice, proclamation or other statutory instrument made,
published or in force under this Act or any other Act to the master shall be
read and construed as a reference to a master.
[Section 11E inserted by No. 67 of 1979
s. 6; amended by No. 47 of 1983 s. 6; No. 14 of 1996
s. 4; No. 69 of 1996 s. 89; No. 8 of 2009 s. 9.]