Western Australian Current Regulations

MAGISTRATES COURT (MINOR CASES PROCEDURE) RULES 2005 - REG 39A

39A .         Compliance with witness summons

        (1)         Your witness must comply with a witness summons requested under rule 39(2)(b) by delivering or sending the evidentiary material and a copy of the witness summons to the Court at the date, time and place specified for production.

        (1A)         For the purposes of subrule (1), evidentiary material and a copy of the witness summons that are delivered or sent by using the ECMS are taken to have been delivered or sent to the Court at the place specified for production.

        (2)         In the case of a witness summons requested under rule 39(2)(a) and (b), compliance with subrule (1) does not discharge your witness from the requirement to attend Court to give evidence.

        (3)         Unless your witness summons specifically requires the production of an original document, your witness may produce a copy of it.

        (4)         The copy of a document may be —

            (a)         a photocopy; or

            (b)         in PDF format on a CD‑ROM.

        [Rule 39A inserted: Gazette 21 Jul 2017 p. 4027; amended: SL 2022/54 r. 13.]