Victorian Current Acts

MAGISTRATES' COURT ACT 1989 - SECT 4P

    (1)     Subject to and in accordance with the rules—

        (a)     a proceeding may be transferred to the Neighbourhood Justice Division, whether sitting at the same or a different venue; and

        (b)     the Neighbourhood Justice Division may transfer a proceeding (including a proceeding transferred to it under paragraph (a)) to the Court, sitting other than as the Neighbourhood Justice Division, at the same or a different venue.

    (2)     Despite anything to the contrary in this Act, if a proceeding is transferred from one venue of the Court to another, the transferee venue is the proper venue of the Court for the purposes of this Act.

S. 4Q inserted by No. 51/2006 s. 4.