Western Australian Numbered Acts

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 2004 (NO. 71 OF 2004) - SECT 73

73 .         Court may set aside decision on its own initiative

                Whether or not an application is made under section 71, a court on its own initiative may make an order that sets aside a decision it has made in a party’s absence on a charge and that orders that the charge be dealt with again, if it is satisfied that it is in the interests of justice to do so.