Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

MAGISTRATES COURT (GENERAL) RULES 2005 - REG 39

39 .         Applications for access to information

        (1)         An application under the Act section 33(8) must be made by lodging a Form 3A together with an affidavit supporting the application.

        (2)         When the application is lodged, a registrar —

            (a)         must refer it to a magistrate; and

            (b)         may attach to it a written report on the administrative implications of granting it.

        (3)         A magistrate to whom an application is referred may, in chambers —

            (a)         without hearing the applicant, grant the application; or

            (b)         order a registrar to list the application for hearing by a magistrate.

        (4)         If under subrule (2)(b) a registrar has attached a report to an application, a magistrate must consider the report before determining the application.

        (5)         A magistrate hearing the application may grant or refuse it.

        [Rule 39 inserted in Gazette 8 Apr 2008 p. 1336; amended in Gazette 7 Jan 2011 p. 52.]