HIGH COURT PROCEDURE.

No. 35 of 1921.

An Act to amend the High Court Procedure Act 1915 and for other purposes.

[Assented to 22nd. December, 1921.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.)     This Act may be cited as the High Court Procedure Act 1921.

(2.)    The High Court Procedure Act 1903-1915 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.)    The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the High Court Procedure Act 1903-1921.

Duration of High Court Procedure Act 1915.

2.  Section one of the High Court Procedure Act 1915 is amended by omitting sub-section (3.) thereof, and that Act shall continue in force as if that sub-section had not been enacted.

Juries in civil cases.

3.  Section fifteen of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (2.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-section:—

“(2.)  But the precept for the jury shall be issued by the Principal Registrar or a District Registrar of the High Court, and jurors shall be summoned by officers of the Commonwealth.”

Juries in criminal cases.

4.  Section fifteen b of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (2.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-section:—

“(2.)    But the precept for the jury shall be issued by the Principal Registrar or a District Registrar of the High Court, and jurors shall be summoned by officers of the Commonwealth.”

5.  After section twenty-six of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—

Interest on judgment.

Cf. Vict. No. 2733, s. 181.

“26a.   Every judgment debt shall carry interest at the rate of seven pounds per centum per annum from the time of the trial or inquiry, or, if there has been no trial or inquiry, from the time of entering up judgment; and the amount of such interest shall be stated in the body of, and may be enforced in the same manner as the judgment.”