APPLICATION FOR USER REGISTRATION
eLogin for e-Lodgment
This application is to enable registration of your organisation as a user of the eLodgment system of the WA Department of the Attorney General. As a user, you will obtain a unique login. Once this login is provided, a user can access the eLodgment systems of the Supreme Court, the District Court and the Magistrates Court.
The completed application is to be sent to the Courts Technology Group at .
Organisation name:(law firm, government agency, corporation or other legal entity)
Organisation address
Organisationemail
ABN/ACN
Name of person completing this application form
Position of person completing this form
Contact person for eLodgment
Phone number of eLodgment contact person
Email of eLodgment contact person
I have read and agree to theApplication Specific Conditions of Use (see pages 3 - 5) and the Conditions of Use - Website Generally for each of:
(a)the Department of the Attorney General (see pages 6 - 8); and
(b)the Supreme Court, the District Court and the Magistrates Court.
If you provide your agreement on behalf of a law firm, government agency, corporation or other legal entity you represent that you are authorised to do so and acknowledge and agree that all users within your law firm, government agency, corporation or other legal entity must comply with all of the above Conditions of Use – Web Sites Generally and the Application Specific Conditions of Use.
User Access Level
You need to specify the names and emails of the initial users. There are two levels of user:
- Manager – create, edit, save, delete, lodge and create a Direct Debit account for payments (only if you choose to pay by Direct Debit)
- Standard – create, edit, save and delete
You can add, remove or vary the level of users at any time – see FAQ.
Please insert the name, email and user level for all proposed users:
Full Name / Unique eMail Address / Access Level*If you have any enquiries, please telephone the Courts Technology Group on 9425 2645.
Registration for e-Lodgment may take a few days due to security checking . Once coding is complete, you will be sent an email inviting you to accept the registration. For more information please read the Registration Instructions located on the Department of the Attorney General's website
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Application Specific Conditions of Use
- Additional Terms and Conditions
You acknowledge that these Application Specific Conditions of Use are in addition to the Conditions of Use – Web Site Generally of both the Department and any relevant Court.
- Failure To Agree
If you do not agree to these Application Specific Conditions of Use you must stop using this Application.
- Request for Access
In submitting a request for access to this Application, you:
-acknowledge that you have read, understood and agree to the Conditions of Use and these Application Specific Conditions of Use; and
-agree that the information provided in your request is accurate, complete and not misleading, and that the Department may rely on that information until we receive notice of any change from you.
The Department reserves the right to refuse any request made at its discretion without having to give reasons for that refusal.
- Use At Your Own Risk
You agree that your use of this Application is entirely at your own risk. This Application is provided on an “as is” basis, and without any representations, warranties or conditions of any kind, whether express or implied, and including without limitation implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, all of which are disclaimed to the fullest extent of the law.
- Compliance With Court Rules
If you are using this Application to lodge a document with a Court or Tribunal you must also comply with the Acts and Rules of the relevant Court or Tribunal.
Any document transmitted by you using this Application will be deemed received in accordance with the Rules of the relevant Court of Tribunal.
- Use Generally
When you use this Application, you must not:
-make it available to unauthorised persons;
-make money out of its use; or
-infringe the rights of any person.
- Time and Place of Sending and Receiving
All interactions with the Department are deemed to take place in the State of Western Australia. Without limiting, and subject to, Clause 5 above, the time stamp of any interaction or transaction is the time of sending from or receipt by the Department’s web server(s) which are set to local time in Perth, Western Australia.
- Viruses
We cannot guarantee that this Application, and any Material contained in, downloaded or accessible, from it, is free from computer viruses or any other threat which may affect your software or systems. To protect your software and systems we recommend you install and implement your own system protection software.
Your transmission to the Department will be examined for known viruses and other threats using the Department’s standard operating environment scanning and detection tools. Where a virus or other threat is detected in your transmission, the transmission may be rejected and will be deemed not to have occurred. Where a transmission is rejected transmission and/or transaction confirmation will not be received by you.
Where a transmission failure has occurred, the Department recommends that you clean and resubmit the transmitted data. The Department is not responsible if your transaction fails for any reason.
- Security of Data
The Department will take all reasonable precautions to protect the data you transmit from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure, during transmission to the Department or while stored on either our web server or on the web servers of parties engaged by the Department.
Our online security measures include, but are not limited to:
-encrypting data sent from your computer to our systems during Internet transactions and customer access codes transmitted across networks;
-employing firewalls, intrusion detection systems and virus scanning tools to prevent unauthorised persons and viruses from entering our systems; and
-using dedicated secure networks or encryption when we transmit electronic data for purposes of outsourcing.
Should you suspect, or become aware of, a breach of security, we ask that you immediately notify us (see “Contact Us” information) and suspend the use of all electronic communications until we are satisfied that appropriate steps have been taken to ensure the security of electronic communications with you.
- Data Backups
The Department undertakes electronic backup of its computer based systems for its own purposes but does not provide backup and recovery of data not required for its own purposes. We recommend that you implement your own backup and recovery facilities and procedures for data accessed from or transmitted to our Web Site and this Application.
- Encryption
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is used when transmitting and receiving your data to and from this Application at all times as a default.
- Technical Support
You are responsible for your own hardware, software and internet connection to use this Application.
The Department will advise you of the minimum hardware, software and internet requirements necessary to use this Application.
The Department may at its discretion if its gives you not less than 7 days notice alter any minimum hardware, software and internet requirements to use this Application.
- Establishing Your Identity
We will provide you with a unique username and confidential password to provide authentication, the combination of which identifies you to us and authenticates you as the person who you claim to be.
When access to this Application is required by more than one person within your organisation, we require each of those people to be identifiable and we will therefore provide, on application, a unique username and confidential password to each of those people. User accounts or confidential passwords must not be shared.
You must immediately notify the Department (see “Contact Us” information) if you become aware of the loss, theft or unauthorised use of your username and confidential password, following which, the Department will, as soon as reasonably possible, disable access to the Application for that username and issue you with a replacement.
It is recommended that passwords be changed on a regular basis – in particular when a registered user leaves your organisation. Passwords may require to be changed on a periodic basis. The Department will inform the authorised user when their password has expired.
- Assumed Validity
You agree that as an authorised user of this Application:
-you are bound by any electronic communication which includes your username and password without any further inquiry on our part;
-we can assume that any transaction or instruction received by way of this Application activated by an authorised user’s username and confidential password originates from that authorised user and is a valid transaction or instruction which cannot be reversed.
Transactions executed by an authorised user may be captured and retained by the Department on a “transaction log” and may include all instructional and financial interactions received from the authorised user. In the event of any dispute, you agree to accept the Department’s transactional log as conclusive evidence of instructional and financial interactions made by you with the Department.
- Revoking Access
The Department may immediately suspend or terminate your access to and use of this Application if your use of this Application:
-is inappropriate or unreasonable; or
-menaces, creates a nuisance or harasses others or attempt to do so; or
-makes any denial-of-service attacks on us, or any other users or networks relating to us, or attempt to do so; or
-unlawfully attempts to gain access to other applications or networks which the Department uses or operates; or
-is in breach of the Conditions of Use or these Application Specific Conditions of Use.
- Amended Terms and Conditions
The Department reserves at its sole discretion the right to change these Application Specific Conditions of Use from time to time. The Department will notify you by email of any changes. By your continued use of this Application you are deemed to agree to any such changes.If you do not agree to any changes you must stop using this Application.
Conditions of Use – Web Site Generally
- Definitions
In these Conditions of Use:
Application means a specific application on this Web Site for which authorisation is required for the use of that application;
Application Specific Conditions of Use means the terms and conditions applying to the use of an Application;
Conditions of Use means these terms and conditions for use of this Web Site;
Material means any audio, data, document, graphics, information and video on this Web Site or any Application;
Department, we, our or us means the Department of the Attorney General, its officers, employees, agents and contractors;
Web Site means, unless otherwise stated, the Web Site operating under the registered domain of 'justice.wa.gov.au' and includes all Applications available on this Web Site;
you or your means the person who agrees to these Conditions of Use and any Application Specific Conditions of Use, either personally or on behalf of a legal entity and includes, if acceptance is on behalf a legal entity, the legal entity’s officers, partners, employees, agents and contractors; and
User means any person or other legal entity using this Web Site and any Application.
- Failure To Agree
If you do not agree to these Conditions of Use you may not use, and must leave, this Web Site.
- Copyright
Copyright in this Web Site and any Application and their respective Material is vested in the State of Western Australia.
Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, customerfeedback or as otherwise permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cwlth), nopart of this Web Site, an Application or any Material in either of them may be reproduced or re-used for any commercial purpose without the prior written permission of the Department of the Attorney General. Requests for authorisation should be directed to at the Department of the Attorney General.
- Browser Versions Supported
This Web Site supports Internet Explorer V5.0 and higher and Netscape Navigator V6.00 and higher.
- Cookies
Certain functions on this Web Site require your browser to be set to allow the creation of “cookies” on your computer. Cookies are required for security reasons and to allow our systems to uniquely identify you and your computer.
The Department does not use cookies to collect personal information. Personal information is only collected from this Web Site in accordance with our Privacy Policy [insert link].
- Statistical Information
Statistical information is collected by the Department in relation to the use of this Web Site, which allows us to improve the Web Site by understanding how our customers use the Web Site. The information collected is described in our Privacy Policy [insert link].
- Freedom of Information
Refer to the FoIdetails on the Department’s website..
- Links to and from the Department’s Web Site
Permission to place a hypertext link to any page, image, or other item on this Web Site should be sought by contacting the Department.
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- Links To and From Other Web Sites
The Department’s Web Site may have links to and from external Internet sites. These external information sources are provided purely for convenience and are outside the Department's control. The Department does not:
-endorse or provide any approval of anything obtained from other web sites;
-warrant or assume any responsibility for the quality, accuracy, source, merchantability, fitness for purpose or any other aspect of anything on those web sites, and you must make your own assessment regarding anything obtained from another web site.
- Contacting the Department
For enquiries regarding information in this Web Site please contact the relevant business area in the ‘Contact Us’ [insert link] section.
For Application specific enquiries, please use the contact details provided when you are logged on to that Application.
Email enquiries and customer feedback will be answered as soon as we reasonably can.
- Compliance With Laws
You must comply with all State and Commonwealth laws when using this Web Site and any Application.
- Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Conditions of Use and any Application Specific Conditions of Use are governed by and will be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Western Australia and are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of Western Australia.
- Accuracy of Information
Material is provided on this Web Site on the basis that you will assess and verify the Material and any representations or statements obtained from the Web Site before use. Changes in circumstances, after Material is placed on this Web Site, may impact the accuracy of that Material.
To the fullest extent permitted by law the Department is not liable to you arising from your use of or reliance on any Material or advice obtained from this Web Site.
- Availability
The Department will endeavour to have this Web Site and any Application available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
You acknowledge however that the Web Site and any Application may become temporarily unavailable due to:
-computer, web server or software malfunction or network congestion; or
-the failure of the communication network provided by your “Internet Service Provider” or ours; or
-ancillary equipment failures; or
-the need to carry out scheduled maintenance; or
-if, in our opinion, a serious threat is posed to any part of the system supporting this Web Site or any Application; or
-other circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
Therefore you should ensure that you have other means of undertaking urgent or time-sensitive transactions and obtaining information, if for any reason this Application is unavailable.
The Department may in its sole discretion also stop providing this Web Site or any Application completely.
The Department accepts no liability if this Web Site or any Application is temporarily or even permanently unavailable.
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- Changing Conditions Of Use
The Department reserves the right to change these Conditions of Use from time to time at its sole discretion. You must periodically check this section of the Web Site to see if any of the changes affect you. By your continued use of this Web Site you are deemed to agree to any such changes. If you do not agree to any changes you must not use and must leave this Web Site.
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