Western Australian Numbered Acts

ACTS AMENDMENT (JUSTICE) ACT 2008 (NO. 5 OF 2008) - SECT 8

8 .         Section 30 amended

                After section 30(6) the following subsections are inserted —

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        (7)         A means inquiry in the Magistrates Court may be conducted in the absence of the judgment creditor, the judgment creditor’s lawyer, and a person referred to in subsection (6), if the judgment creditor, before the inquiry, asks the court to itself examine the judgment debtor for the purposes of determining the matters listed in section 26.

        (8)         At a means inquiry in the Magistrates Court the court, at the request of the judgment creditor made before or at the inquiry, may itself examine the judgment debtor for the purposes of determining the matters listed in section 26.

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