(1) Rules of court may
be made for carrying the purposes of this Act into effect and, in particular,
for or with respect to the following —
(a)
applications to a court under this Act and the costs of such applications;
(b) the
payment or bringing of money into and out of a court in satisfaction of claims
to which arbitration agreements apply and the investment of that money;
(c) the
examination of witnesses before a court or before any other person and the
issue of commissions or requests for the examination of witnesses outside
Western Australia, for the purposes of an arbitration;
(d)
offers of compromise in relation to claims to which arbitration agreements
apply;
(e) any
other matter or thing for or with respect to which rules are by this Act
authorised or required to be made by a court.
(2) Subsection (1)
does not limit the rule-making powers conferred on a court by any other Act.
Note for this section:
There is no equivalent
to this section in the Model Law.