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PUBLIC NOTARIES AMENDMENT BILL 2004

                       Western Australia

     Public Notaries Amendment Bill 2004
                             CONTENTS

1.     Short title                          1
2.     Commencement                         2
3.     The Act amended                      2
4.     Section 6 amended                    2
5.     Section 7A inserted                  2
6.     Section 10 amended                   3
7.     Section 11 amended                   3




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                      LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY


        Public Notaries Amendment Bill 2004

                               A Bill for

An Act to amend the Public Notaries Act 1979.


The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:


1.      Short title
        This Act may be cited as the Public Notaries Amendment
        Act 2004.




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     2.       Commencement
              This Act comes into operation on a day fixed by proclamation.
     3.       The Act amended
              The amendments in this Act are to the Public Notaries
5             Act 1979*.
              [* Reprint 1 as at 5 September 2003.
                 For subsequent amendments see Western Australian
                 Legislation Information Tables for 2003, Table 1, p. 311.]
     4.       Section 6 amended
10            Section 6(4) is amended by deleting "Fremantle or Perth
              district" and inserting instead --
              "
                     metropolitan region (within the meaning of section 6 of
                     the Metropolitan Region Town Planning Scheme
15                   Act 1959)
                                                                               ".
     5.       Section 7A inserted
              After section 7 the following section is inserted --
     "
20          7A.    Chief Justice may obtain report about applicant
                   from Legal Practice Board
              (1) In this section --
                  "Board" means the Legal Practice Board established
                       under section 6 of the Legal Practice Act 2003.
25            (2) The Chief Justice may request the Board to report to
                  him or her on any question about which the Chief
                  Justice is required to be satisfied under section 7 in
                  relation to an application made under that section.

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               (3) On a request made under subsection (2), the Board
                   shall report to the Chief Justice on each question
                   specified in the request.
               (4) For the purposes of reporting to the Chief Justice on a
5                  question the Board --
                     (a) may, but is not required to, hold an inquiry into
                           the question; and
                     (b) may consult any body of Notaries in the State.
               (5) Section 41 of the Legal Practice Act 2003 applies to
10                 any inquiry held under subsection (4)(a) as if the
                   inquiry were held under Part 5 of that Act.
                                                                              ".
     6.        Section 10 amended
          (1) Section 10(1) is repealed.
15        (2) Section 10(4) is repealed.
     7.        Section 11 amended
               Section 11 is amended by inserting before "Court" in the
               2 places where it occurs --
               " Full ".
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