Western Australian Current Acts

RESTRAINING ORDERS ACT 1997 - SECT 23

23 .         Orders at telephone hearing

        (1)         An authorised magistrate hearing a telephone application is to —

            (a)         make a telephone order; or

            (b)         dismiss the application; or

            (c)         adjourn the matter to a mention hearing.

        (2)         If the authorised magistrate adjourns the matter under subsection (1)(c) the registrar is to fix a hearing and summons the respondent to the hearing.

        (3)         If the duration of a telephone order is more than 72 hours the order is an interim order and Division 4 applies.

        [Section 23 amended: No. 59 of 2004 s. 123.]