MAGISTRATES COURT 
OF THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

NOTICE TO PRACTITIONERS

Christmas Sitting Dates and Shutdown 2016/2017

The last listing day for the Magistrates Court for 2016 will be Wednesday 
21 December 2016, this will be a half day and finish at 1pm.  

The A1 and A2 criminal lists will recommence on Monday 9 January 2017, all other court listings will recommence on Wednesday 11 January 2017.     

The Registry will be closed from 4:30pm on 23 December 2016 and will open at 9am on Tuesday 3 January 2017.   

The following dates are duty Magistrate days, during which the duty Magistrate will sit for bail (adult and children and young people); Emergency Care and Protection proceedings and applications for Interim Domestic Violence and Protection Orders).  The Registrar also will sit for applications for Interim Domestic Violence and Protection Orders:

•	22 and 23 December 2016; 3-10 January 2017.  

ACT Magistrates Court will sit only for the purposes of Bail (adult and children/young people) and Emergency Care and Protection proceedings on the following days and will only sit for the period necessary (ie these days will proceed in the same manner as Saturday and Public Holiday Court days):

•	24 December 2016;
•	26, 27, 28, 30 and 31 December 2016; and
•	2 January 2017.

Amanda Nuttall
Registrar 
ACT Magistrates Court

29 September 2016