Victorian Current Acts

COUNTY COURT ACT 1958 - SECT 37

    (1)     The court has jurisdiction to hear and determine—

S. 37(1)(a) amended by No. 19/1989 s. 8(c)(i).

        (a)     all applications, claims, disputes and civil proceedings regardless of the type of relief sought or the subject-matter as are not by this or any other Act excluded from its jurisdiction; and

S. 37(1)(b) amended by Nos 12/1989 s. 4(1)(Sch. 2 items 18.2, 18.3), 19/1989 s. 8(c)(ii).

        (b)     all civil proceedings against municipal councils in respect of loss or injury sustained by persons or property by reason of accidents, upon or while using any highway, street, road, bridge, ferry or jetty or upon or in or while using any paths or any land or building under the control of a municipal council; and

S. 37(1)(c) amended by No. 19/1989 s. 8(c)(iii).

        (c)     all other civil proceedings in respect of which jurisdiction is given to the court by this or any other Act.

S. 37(2) amended by No. 19/1989 s. 8(d)(i)–(iii).

    (2)     The court does not have jurisdiction to hear or determine any application, claim, dispute or other civil proceeding (other than proceedings to which subsection (1)(b) or (c) applies)—

S. 37(2)(a)(b) repealed by No. 50/2006 s. 3(2).

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S. 37(2)(c) amended by No. 19/1989 s. 15(a).

        (c)     brought by application for a prerogative writ or an order in the nature of a prerogative writ; or

        (d)     brought upon a judgment of the Supreme Court.

S. 37(3) inserted by No. 107/1986 s. 6(2), amended by No. 19/1989 s. 8(e)(i).

    (3)     If a verdict is returned for or a judgment is given for an amount greater than the amount sought to be recovered in the civil proceeding by the plaintiff—

        (a)     the court must find and record the amount of the verdict or judgment; and

S. 37(3)(b) amended by No. 19/1989 s. 8(e)(ii).

        (b)     the plaintiff may recover the full amount of the verdict or judgment or, if the full amount is liable to be reduced in accordance with Part V of the Wrongs Act 1958 , the amount to which the full amount is so liable to be reduced, even if that full amount or reduced amount is greater than the amount sought to be recovered.

No. 6117 s. 38.

S. 38 substituted by No. 16/1986 s. 11(4), amended by Nos 12/1989
s. 4(1)(Sch. 2 item 18.4), 19/1989 s. 8(f)(i)–(iii), 22/2006 s. 20, repealed by No. 50/2006 s. 3(3).

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No. 6117 s. 39.

S. 39 amended by No. 9957
s. 3(c), substituted by No. 16/1986 s. 11(4), amended by No. 107/1986 s. 6(1)(a).