South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts75—Court documents in wrong form do not invalidate proceedings or
decisions
(a) a
document lodged, served or issued in a cross-border proceeding of a
prescribed court of
the State (the "State court") is in the form of a court document of a
prescribed court of another participating jurisdiction (the "interstate court
); and
(b) the
person who is the subject of the proceeding has a connection with
a cross-border region that is partly in that other jurisdiction for the
purposes of the proceeding.
(2) The proceeding or
a decision in the proceeding cannot be challenged, appealed against, quashed
or called into question on the ground that the document is in the form of a
court document of the interstate court.
(3) The State court
may, on an application made by a party to the proceeding or on its own
initiative, order that a document in the form of a court document of the State
court be lodged, served or issued (as the case requires) instead of the
document referred to in subsection (1)(a).
(4) A document lodged,
served or issued under subsection (3) is taken to have been lodged,
served or issued on the day on which, and at the time at which, the document
referred to in subsection (1)(a) was lodged, served or issued.