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MAGISTRATES COURT RULES (AMENDMENT) (NO. 1 OF 1987) - REG 1

Court fees

1. Rule 68 of the Magistrates Court Rules is amended:

        (a)     by omitting from subrule (2) all the words after “fee” and substituting:

“is an amount equal to the aggregate of an amount calculated at the rate of $2.00 for each day or part day of the hearing in respect of which the copy or transcript is required and an amount calculated at the rate of $0.05 for each page included in the record or transcript”; and

        (b)     by adding at the end the following subrules:

“(3) A person who is:

        (a)     an accused person in proceedings in the Court under Part VI of the Ordinance;

        (b)     a defendant in proceedings in the Court for an offence against a law in force in the Territory;

        (c)     a party to proceedings in the Court under the Family Law Act 1975 ; or

        (d)     a relative of a deceased person whose death is the subject of an inquest under the Coroners Ordinance 1956 ;

is entitled, without the payment of any fee, to one copy of the record or a transcript or a copy of the transcript of the record of the proceedings.

“(4) The Commonwealth or a prescribed authority is entitled, without the payment of any fee, to one copy of the record or a transcript or a copy of the transcript of the record of any proceedings in the Court.

“(5) In this rule:

‘prescribed authority' means a body corporate, or an unincorporated body, established for a public purpose by or under an Act or Ordinance, not being a body that is listed in Appendix A to section 29 of the Finance Directions dated 1 March 1982 issued pursuant to regulation 127A of the Finance Regulations made under the Audit Act 1901 , being those Directions as in force at the date of commencement of this subrule; and

‘relative', in relation to a deceased person, means a spouse, parent, child, brother, sister or next of kin.”.



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