Western Australian Numbered Acts Western Australian Numbered Acts (1) A superior court
may make rules of court to regulate the practice and procedure to be followed
in the court and its registries in relation to all or particular cases that
involve the court’s criminal jurisdiction.
(2) Rules of court
made by the Supreme Court under subsection (1) operate in respect of the
practice and procedure in the District Court unless rules of court made by the
District Court under subsection (1) expressly provide otherwise.
(3) The
Supreme Court Act 1935 sections 168 and 170 apply to any such rules
of court being made by the Supreme Court.
(4) Any such rules of
court made by the District Court must be made by a majority of the District
Court Judges and the District Court of Western Australia Act 1969
section 89 applies to the rules.
(5) Without limiting
subsection (1) rules of court may —
(a)
confer on a registrar of the court, in all or particular cases and under such
circumstances and on such conditions as the rules specify, jurisdiction to
deal with applications and other matters that do not involve the final
determination of a prosecution;
(b)
prescribe forms to be used in the court;
(c)
authorise the chief judicial officer of the court to approve forms to be used
in the court.