Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) All documents
required to be filed or lodged under the Act or these regulations must be
filed or lodged as the case requires in the office of the Registrar.
(2) Subject to this
regulation and regulation 5, documents required to be filed or lodged
under the Act or these regulations must, unless in a particular case the
Commission otherwise expressly approves, be lodged at a time when the office
of the Registrar is open for business.
(3) Where a document
is required to be filed or lodged within a prescribed time and the office of
the Registrar is not open for business on the last day on which it may be
filed or lodged, it is taken to have been filed or lodged within time if it is
filed or lodged on the next day that the office of the Registrar is open for
business.
(4) Every document
required to be filed or lodged under the Act or these regulations and every
copy for service must be in the form required by these regulations, clearly
written or typed or reproduced on one side only with an adequate margin.
(5) The Registrar is
not to accept any document unless it has been fully and correctly completed in
accordance with the Act and these regulations.
(6) Appeal books
lodged in relation to appeals under sections 49 and 84 of the Act are not
documents for the purposes of subregulation (5).
(7) Except where
otherwise provided by these regulations or otherwise directed by the
Commission, one copy of every document for the use of the Commission together
with at least as many copies as there are parties must be filed or lodged in
the office of the Registrar.
(8) Where an
application is received by the office of the Registrar for which a fee is
prescribed for filing and the applicant does not pay the prescribed fee within
7 days from the date the application was received, the Registrar is to inform
the applicant in writing of the requirement to pay the prescribed fee.
(9) If the applicant
does not pay the prescribed fee within 7 days of being informed under
subregulation (8), the Registrar is to forward the application with a
memorandum to that effect to —
(a) the
President, if the application is made to the President or the Full Bench; or
(b) the
Chief Commissioner.
[Regulation 4 amended in Gazette
28 Apr 2006 p. 1651; 12 Oct 2010 p. 5153.]