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10The *Criminal Law Amendment (Sexual Assault and Other Matters) Act 2004* Pt. 4 reads as follows:
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10 The *Criminal Law Amendment (Sexual Assault and Other Matters) Act 2004* Pt. 4 reads as follows:
Part 4 — Transitional and validation
30. Validation of payments
fee regulations means regulations 6(2) and 13 of the *Evidence (Witnesses’ and Interpreters’ Fees and Expenses) Regulations 1976*.
(2) Any payment purporting to have been made under the fee regulations before the coming into operation of section 28 is taken to have been, and to have always been, as valid as it would have been if section 28 had come into operation before the fee regulations were made.
11 The amendment in the *Criminal Procedure and Appeals (Consequential and Other Provisions) Act 2004* s. 78 to s. 56(1) is not included because that subsection was replaced by s. 82 (Sch. 2 it. 118) of the same Act.
12 The amendment in the *Machinery of Government (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2006* s. 36 to s. 106A is not included because the paragraph it sought to amend had been amended by the *Children and Community Services Act 2004* Sch. 2 cl. 9.
Defined terms
*[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]*
**Defined term Provision(s)**
accused 36A(1), 106A
Act 3
affected child 106A
application for leave 19A(1)
audio link 120(1)
Australasian colony 3
Australia 109(1), 115, 120(1)
authenticated copy 73BA(1)
authorised officer 50B(1)
authority 104A(5)
bank 3
bankers’ books 3
broadcast 36C(4), 106MB(3)
business 79B
business day 50B(1)
business record 79B
child 106A
colony 3
Commonwealth 3
complainant 19A(1)(a), 36A(1), 36C(4)
confidant 20A(1)
confider 20E(1)
corroboration warning 50(1)
counsel 106A
counselling communication 19A(1)
counsellor 19A(1)
counsels 19A(1)(a) and (2)
court 3, 79B
criminal organisation 106A
criminal organisation offence 106A
criminal proceedings 119(1)
derived 79B
direction 20G
disclose 19A(1)
DNA profile 50B(1)
document 3, 79B
duties Act 73U(3)
eligible service 119(1)
examination 50B(1), 109(1)
examined copy 3
forensic scientist 50B(1)
Gazette 3
Government Printer 3
harm 19A(1), 20A(1)
hearing 106T(5)
hearing day 50B(1)
identifying evidence 20G, 20I
inferior court 109(1)
informant 20G
inquest 119(1)
journalist 20G
judge 3, 11(3), 12(5), 106M(3)
judicial authority 109(1)
legal proceeding 3
liable person 119(1)
mental impairment 106A
misconduct 20E(1), 20K(1)
national security 20G
new offence 106A
news medium 20G
officer of the Library Board of Western Australia 65A(2)
opinion rule 27B(4)
participating jurisdiction 120(1)
party 19C(7), 50B(1)
periodical 42
person acting judicially 3
person acting judicially 20G
photograph 3
prisoner 3
privilege 32A(2)
Privy Council 57(4)
proceeding 3, 20G, 106A, 106HB(1)
proceedings 79B, 115
propensity evidence 31A(1)
property 115
prosecutor 106A
protected communication 19A(1)
protected confidence 20A(1)
protected confider 20A(1)
protected identity information 20A(1)
protected person 19A(1)
protected witness 106G(3)
protection provisions 19A(1)
protection provisions (journalists) 20G
protection provisions (PCR) 20A(1)
qualified person 79B
recognized court 120(1)
relationship evidence 31A(1)
relevant statement 106H(3)
repealed Code section 9(6), 36A(1), Sch. 7(2)
request 115
requesting court 115
require disclosure 19A(1)
rules of court 32A(2)
Schedule 7 proceeding 106A
serious sexual offence 106A
sexual offence 36A(1)
special hearing 106S(2)
special witness 106A
stamped 73U(3)
State 3
statement 79B
superior court 109(1)
support person 19A(1)
supporting affidavit 19A(1)
the State 3
thing 50B(1)
tribunal 120(1)
uncorroborated evidence 3
victim 106A
video link 120(1)
visual recording 106A
visual recording of evidence 106A
visually recorded interview 106A, 106HA(3)
votes and proceedings 3
WA court 120(1)
witness 106RA(1)
written publication 36C(4)
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