Western Australian Current Regulations

MAGISTRATES COURT (MINOR CASES PROCEDURE) RULES 2005 - REG 45F

45F .         Dismissal of inactive cases

        (1)         If your case remains an inactive case for 6 continuous months, it is taken to be dismissed.

        (2)         If the Court orders that your case is no longer taken to be inactive and neither you nor any other party to the case takes any procedural step in the case in the 6 months after the date of the order, your case is taken to be dismissed.

        (3)         If your case is taken to be dismissed under subrule (1) or (2) —

            (a)         you or any other party to the case may apply for an order for costs; and

            (b)         the Court may make an order for costs.

        (4)         The Court may, in exceptional circumstances and on such terms as it thinks just, set aside the dismissal of your case under this rule.

        (5)         For the purposes of subrule (4), it does not matter that your case was taken to be dismissed before the commencement of that subrule.

        [Rule 45F inserted: Gazette 5 Apr 2019 p. 1016.]

        [Heading inserted: SL 2021/25 r. 29.]