Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The Governor may,
from time to time, by proclamation declare that such places in Western
Australia as he thinks fit are circuit towns.
(2) The Governor may,
by subsequent proclamation, cancel or alter circuit towns.
(3) Sittings of the
Supreme Court in a circuit town shall be held on such days and at such times
as the Chief Justice, from time to time, appoints.
(4) Notice of the days
on which and the times at which a circuit court is to be held shall be
published in the Government Gazette ; and the notice shall be exhibited in a
conspicuous place in the Court House of the circuit town and in the office of
the registrar of the District Court at that circuit town, and no other notice
thereof is required, unless a judge otherwise directs.
(5) The Chief Justice
may, from time to time, alter the days and times for the holding of a circuit
court and when any such day is so altered notice of the intended alteration
and the time it is to take effect shall be exhibited in a conspicuous place in
the Court House in the circuit town and in the office of registrar of the
District Court at that circuit town.
(6) When a judge who
is to hold a circuit court does not attend at the time appointed for any
sitting thereof the registrar of the District Court at the circuit town may
open the circuit court and adjourn it to the following day or such other day
or the next sitting of the circuit court as he is directed by a judge or by a
master or a registrar of the Supreme Court.
(7) Where a circuit
court is to be held the registrar of the District Court at the circuit town
shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the judge on the first day of the
sitting a calendar of all prisoners in custody for trial or sentence at the
circuit court (wherever the prisoners are confined) and shall bring up or
cause to be brought up every such prisoner to the circuit court, there to be
dealt with according to law.
(8) Nothing in this
section limits the powers conferred on the Supreme Court and judges thereof by
section 38.
(9) In this section
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District Court means The District Court of Western
Australia; and
registrar has the meaning assigned to it in
section 6 of the District Court of Western Australia Act 1969 .
[Section 46 inserted: No. 57 of 1975 s. 6;
amended: No. 67 of 1979 s. 8; No. 47 of 1983 s. 13.]
[ 47. Deleted: No. 50 of 1957 s. 2.]