Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) If in any
proceedings under this Act a respondent, or a person who is bound by an
order —
(a) is
not represented; and
(b)
wishes to cross-examine a person with whom the examiner is in a family and
domestic relationship or an imagined personal relationship,
the court is to order
that the examiner —
(c) is
not entitled to do so directly; but
(d) may
put any question to the person to be examined by stating the question to a
judicial officer or a person approved by the court,
and that person is to
repeat the question accurately to the person to be examined.
(2)
Subsection (1) does not apply —
(a)
if —
(i)
the person to be examined requests that the order not be
made; and
(ii)
the court considers it appropriate in all the
circumstances for the order not to be made;
or
(b) if
the court is of the opinion that it is not just or desirable for such an order
to be made.
[Section 44C inserted by No. 38 of 2004
s. 26.]