Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

JURISDICTION OF COURTS (CROSS-VESTING) ACT (NO. 60 OF 1993) - LONG TITLE

An Act to make provision for the cross-vesting of certain jurisdiction

PREAMBLE

1. Inconvenience and expense have occasionally been caused to litigants by jurisdictional limitations in federal, State and Territory courts.

2. It is desirable—

(a) to establish a system of cross-vesting of jurisdiction between those courts without detracting from the existing jurisdiction of any court;

(b) to structure the system in such a way as to ensure as far as practicable that proceedings concerning matters which, apart from this Act and any law of the Commonwealth or another State or Territory relating to cross-vesting of jurisdiction, would be entirely or substantially within the jurisdiction (other than any accrued jurisdiction) of the Federal Court or the Family Court or the jurisdiction of a Supreme Court of a State or Territory are instituted and determined in that court, whilst providing for the determination by one court of federal, State and Territory matters in appropriate cases; and

(c) if a proceeding is instituted in a court that is not the appropriate court, to provide a system under which the proceeding will be transferred to the appropriate court.

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory therefore enacts as follows: