South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts1 Inconvenience and expense have occasionally been caused to litigants by
jurisdictional limitations in federal, State and Territory courts.
2 It is desirable—
(a) to establish a system of cross-vesting of jurisdiction between those
courts, without detracting from the existing jurisdiction of any court; and
(b) to structure the system in such a way as to ensure as far as practicable
that proceedings concerning matters which, apart from this Act and any law of
the Commonwealth or another State relating to cross-vesting of jurisdiction,
would be entirely or substantially within the jurisdiction (other than any
accrued jurisdiction) of the Federal Court or the Family Court or the
jurisdiction of a Supreme Court of a State or Territory are instituted and
determined in that court, whilst providing for the determination by one court
of federal and State matters in appropriate cases; and
(c) if a proceeding is instituted in a court that is not the appropriate
court, to provide a system under which the proceeding will be transferred to
the appropriate court.
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows: