Victorian Current Acts

MAGISTRATES' COURT ACT 1989 - SECT 4A

    (1)     The Court has a Drug Court Division.

    (2)     The Drug Court Division has such of the powers of the Court as are necessary to enable it to exercise its jurisdiction.

    (3)     Despite section 4(3), the Drug Court Division shall only be constituted by a magistrate who has been assigned to that Division by the Chief Magistrate by notice published in the Government Gazette.

S. 4A(3A) inserted by No. 19/2005 s. 4(4).

    (3A)     Nothing in subsection (3) prevents the Drug Court Division being constituted by a judicial registrar in accordance with section 4(3AA).

    (4)     Despite anything to the contrary in this Act, the Drug Court Division may only sit and act at a venue of the Court specified by the Chief Magistrate by notice published in the Government Gazette.

    (5)     The Drug Court Division must exercise its jurisdiction with as little formality and technicality, and with as much expedition, as the requirements of this Act and the Sentencing Act 1991 and the proper consideration of the matters before the Court permit.

S. 4B inserted by No. 2/2002 s. 10, substituted by No. 36/2007 s. 4.