15BElectronic filing of documents

15B Electronic filing of documents

15B Electronic filing of documents

(1) This clause applies to any document that is permitted to be filed using JusticeLink.

Note—

The Children’s Court is authorised to use JusticeLink for the purposes of certain criminal and other proceedings—see Schedule 1 to the Electronic Transactions (ECM Courts) Order 2005.

(2) In any proceedings, a document permitted to be filed using JusticeLink may be filed in the Court on behalf of a party to the proceeding by a person who is—

(a) a party to proceedings (including a police prosecutor or a caseworker employed by the Department of Communities and Justice), or

(b) a relevant legal practitioner for a party in proceedings.

(3) A document that is filed by means of JusticeLink is taken to have been filed when JusticeLink gives notification of receipt of the document.

(4) Notification of receipt of a document, and of the date and time of the receipt, is to be given, by means of JusticeLink, to the person by whom the document was filed.

(5) When filed by means of JusticeLink, a document that is required to be signed by a person is taken to have been duly authenticated for the purposes of clause 5 of Schedule 1 to the Electronic Transactions Act 2000 if the person’s name is printed where his or her signature would otherwise appear.

cl 15B: Ins 2018 (744), Sch 1 [4]. Am 2020 (99), Sch 1[1].