New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FEDERAL COURTS (STATE JURISDICTION) ACT 1999 - SECT 17

17 Jurisdiction of courts

(1) Any provision of a relevant State law that purports to confer jurisdiction on a federal court is taken not to have that effect.

(2) Any provision of a law applied by a relevant State Act that excludes or limits the jurisdiction of any or all State courts is taken not to have that effect.

(3) This section does not operate:

(a) so as to prevent a federal court from exercising jurisdiction (such as accrued jurisdiction) in connection with a relevant State law to the extent to which, but for subsection (1), that court could validly do so, or

(b) so as to prevent a relevant State law from conferring jurisdiction on a federal court to the extent to which, but for subsection (1), a State Act could validly do so.

(4) Nothing in this section limits section 16.

(5) In this section,
"relevant State law" means a relevant State Act, or a law as applied by a relevant State Act, and includes a Commonwealth administrative law.