REPUBLIC OF NAURU
NAURU COURT OF APPEAL (AMENDMENT) ACT 2020
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No. 24 of 2020
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An Act to amend the Nauru Court of Appeal Act 2018.  
Certified: 23rd October 2020

Table of Contents
1	Short title	
2	Commencement
3	Amendment of the Nauru Court Of Appeal Act 2018	
4	Amendment of Section 6	

Enacted by the Parliament of Nauru as follows:
1	Short title
This Act may be cited as the Nauru Court of Appeal (Amendment) Act 2020.
2	Commencement
This Act commences on 15 November 2020.  
3	Amendment of the Nauru Court of Appeal Act 2018  

The Nauru Court of Appeal Act 2018 is amended by the provisions of this Act.

4	Amendment of Section 6

Section 6 is amended by inserting new subsections (3), (4) and (5) as follows:

‘(3) Where the Court or a single Justice of Appeal is unable to sit in the Republic for the purposes of subsection (1), in urgent or exceptional circumstances, the Court or a single Justice of Appeal may sit to hear or make orders in a cause or matter from outside the Republic through audio visual link. 

(4)  For the purposes of subsection (3), the Registrar shall ensure that the legal practitioners or parties are available in the courtroom as if the court were sitting for a hearing in the Republic.

(5) 	For the purposes of this Section, ‘exceptional or urgent circumstances’ shall be determined by the Registrar:

(a) on the nature of an application filed in Court; and

(a)	on any submissions by one or more parties to a cause or matter providing the exceptional or urgent circumstances.’