Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations1. Rule 68 of the Magistrates Court Rules is amended:
(a) by omitting from subrule (2) all the words after “fee” and substituting:
“is an amount equal to the aggregate of an amount calculated at the rate of $2.00 for each day or part day of the hearing in respect of which the copy or transcript is required and an amount calculated at the rate of $0.05 for each page included in the record or transcript”; and
(b) by adding at the end the following subrules:
“(3) A person who is:
(a) an accused person in proceedings in the Court under Part VI of the Ordinance;
(b) a defendant in proceedings in the Court for an offence against a law in force in the Territory;
(c) a party to proceedings in the Court under the Family Law Act 1975 ; or
(d) a relative of a deceased person whose death is the subject of an inquest under the Coroners Ordinance 1956 ;
is entitled, without the payment of any fee, to one copy of the record or a transcript or a copy of the transcript of the record of the proceedings.
“(4) The Commonwealth or a prescribed authority is entitled, without the payment of any fee, to one copy of the record or a transcript or a copy of the transcript of the record of any proceedings in the Court.
“(5) In this rule:
‘prescribed authority' means a body corporate, or an unincorporated body, established for a public purpose by or under an Act or Ordinance, not being a body that is listed in Appendix A to section 29 of the Finance Directions dated 1 March 1982 issued pursuant to regulation 127A of the Finance Regulations made under the Audit Act 1901 , being those Directions as in force at the date of commencement of this subrule; and
‘relative', in relation to a deceased person, means a spouse, parent, child, brother, sister or next of kin.”.