New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LAND AND ENVIRONMENT COURT ACT 1979 - SECT 73

73 Proceedings after transfer

(cf Civil Procedure Act 2005 , section 148)

(1) Subject to the rules, any proceedings with respect to which an order under section 72 is made are to continue in the Court as if they had been duly commenced in the Court on the date on which they were commenced in the Supreme Court.

(2) For the purposes of any proceedings continued in the Court, any admission duly made in the Supreme Court is to be treated as if it had been duly made in the Court.

(3) Subject to the rules, the power of the Court to make orders as to costs includes a power to make orders with respect to the costs of--

(a) the application for, and the making of, the order under section 72, and

(b) any step taken in the proceedings before the order under section 72 was made.