Western Australian Current Acts

CIVIL PROCEDURE (REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDINGS) ACT 2022 - SECT 3

3 .         Terms used

In this Act —

        Court means the Supreme Court;

        group member means a member of a group of persons on whose behalf a representative proceeding has been commenced;

        proceeding means a civil proceeding in the Court;

        representative party means a person who commences a representative proceeding or who is substituted as a representative party under this Act;

        representative proceeding means a proceeding commenced as a representative proceeding under this Act;

        respondent means a person against whom relief is sought in a representative proceeding;

        sub-group member means a person included in a sub-group established under section 18;

        sub-group representative party means a person appointed to be the sub-group representative party for sub-group members or who is substituted as a sub-group representative party under this Act.