Western Australian Consolidated Acts

FATAL ACCIDENTS ACT 1959 - SECT 9A

9A .         Powers of court as to parties and procedure

        (1)         Where —

            (a)         an action under this Act has been commenced; and

            (b)         the court is satisfied that a person whose name is not included in the names of the persons for whose benefit the action is stated to have been brought is a person whose name should have been so included,

                the court may, on application made by or on behalf of that person or of its own motion, order the action to proceed as if the name of that person had been so included.

        (2)         The court may order that any one or more of the persons for whose benefit an action has been brought be separately represented.

        (3)         Where the court makes an order under this section, the court may, at the same time or subsequently, make such orders in relation to procedure in the action as it thinks fit.

        (4)         The powers of the court under this section are in addition to and not in derogation of any other powers of the court.

        [Section 9A inserted by No. 97 of 1985 s. 7.]

[ 10.         Deleted by No. 20 of 2008 s. 5.]