Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) If in any
proceedings under this Act a respondent, or a person who is bound by an order
—
(a) is
not represented; and
(b)
wishes to cross-examine a person with whom the examiner is in a family
relationship or an imagined personal relationship,
the court is to order
that the examiner —
(c) is
not entitled to do so directly; but
(d) may
put any question to the person to be examined by stating the question to a
judicial officer or a person approved by the court,
and that person is to
repeat the question accurately to the person to be examined.
(2) Subsection (1)
does not apply —
(a) if
—
(i)
the person to be examined requests that the order not be
made; and
(ii)
the court considers it appropriate in all the
circumstances for the order not to be made;
or
(b) if
the court is of the opinion that it is not just or desirable for such an order
to be made.
(3) This section does
not derogate from the operation of section 44F.
[Section 44C inserted: No. 38 of 2004 s. 26;
amended: No. 49 of 2016 s. 50; No. 30 of 2020 s. 66.]
[Heading inserted: No. 30 of 2020 s. 67.]