Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

ACT CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ACT 2008 - SECT 16

    (1)     In this Act:

"civil dispute "means a dispute in relation to which a civil dispute application may be made.

"civil dispute" application means an application that consists of 1 or more of the following applications:

        (a)     a contract application;

        (b)     a damages application;

        (c)     a debt application;

        (d)     a goods application;

        (e)     a nuisance application;

        (f)     a trespass application;

        (g)     an application for a debt declaration;

        (h)     an application for a common boundaries determination;

              (i)     an application for an order under the Australian Consumer Law (ACT)

;

        (j)     an application stated to be a civil dispute application in an authorising law.

    (2)     To remove any doubt, a civil dispute application does not include a fair work claim.

Note 1     A fair work claim may be started in the Magistrates Court (see Magistrates Court Act 1930

, pt 4.2A).

Note 2     Orders may be sought for the contravention of a civil remedy provision in the Federal Court and Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2) (see Fair Work Act 2009

(Cwlth), s 539).