Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) A written notice
to an accused under section 13A(3) shall be —
(a)
given to the accused personally; or
(b) sent
to the accused —
(i)
by post to the accused’s address appearing in the
records of the court; or
(ii)
in urgent cases or with the accused’s consent, by
electronic communication.
(2) A person who gives
or sends a notice in accordance with subsection (1) shall endorse on a
file copy of the notice a certificate showing —
(a) that
the person has done so; and
(b) the
time of doing so.
(3) If a notice is
sent by post under subsection (1)(b)(i), the notice is to be presumed,
unless the contrary is shown, to have been received at the time when, in the
ordinary course of events, it would have been delivered.
(4) In any
proceedings —
(a) a
document purporting to be a copy of a notice referred to in
subsection (1) is evidence of the terms of the notice; and
(b) an
endorsement on a copy of a notice referred to in subsection (2)
purporting to be a certificate referred to in that subsection is evidence of
the matters appearing in the certificate without proof of the signature of the
person who made the endorsement.
[Section 13B inserted by No. 6 of 2008
s. 14.]