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MAGISTRATES' COURT (JUDICIAL REGISTRARS) RULES 2015 - REG 7

Powers of judicial registrars in certain criminal proceedings and certain related proceedings

    (1)     A judicial registrar may exercise all or any powers of the Court under section 59 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2009 in a criminal proceeding for a summary offence or an indictable offence triable summarily.

Rule 7(1A) inserted by S.R. No. 135/2016 rule 7.

    (1A)     A judicial registrar may exercise all or any powers of the Court under any of the following provisions in a criminal proceeding for a summary offence or an indictable offence triable summarily—

        (a)     section 26(2) of the Bail Act 1977 ;

        (b)     section 80(1)(b), 81 or 330(4) or (5) of the Criminal Procedure Act 2009 .

    (2)     A judicial registrar may exercise all or any powers of the Court under the following provisions, if the exercise of the power is incidental to the exercise by a judicial registrar of the Court's powers referred to in paragraph (1)—

        (a)     Division 1 of Part 3 and Part 10 of the Confiscation Act 1997 ;

        (b)     section 151 of the Firearms Act 1996 .

    (3)     A judicial registrar may exercise all or any powers of the Court under section 83AT of the  Sentencing Act 1991 in relation to a contravention of section 83AC of that Act, if the contravention under section 83AC relates to an order made by a judicial registrar under section 72 or 75 of the Sentencing Act 1991 .

Rule 7(4) inserted by S.R. No. 24/2019 rule 5, amended by S.R. No. 95/2019 rule 5, substituted by S.R. No. 168/2021 rule 5.

    (4)     A judicial registrar may exercise all or any of the powers of the Court under section 61B of the Marine (Drug, Alcohol and Pollution Control) Act 1988 .

Division 2—Civil matters



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