Norfolk Island (Sittings of the Supreme Court) Regulations (Cth)

NORFOLK ISLAND ACT.

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NORFOLK ISLAND (SITTINGS OF THE SUPREME COURT) REGULATIONS.

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Statutory Rules 1962, No. 94.(a)

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Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Norfolk Island (Sittings of the Supreme Court) Regulations.

Sittings of the Supreme Court outside Norfolk Island.

2.—(1.) The Supreme Court may sit in the State of New South Wales, the State of Victoria or the Australian Capital Territory for the purpose of hearing and determining a matter, otherwise than in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, if the judge is satisfied that the hearing of the matter outside Norfolk Island is not contrary to the interests of justice.

(2.) Sittings of the Supreme Court referred to in the last preceding sub-regulation shall be held at such places in the State of New South Wales, the State of Victoria or the Australian Capital Territory, and at such times, as the judge thinks fit.

(3.) The Supreme Court may, at any stage of a proceeding, order that the hearing of a matter, other than in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, at a sitting held at a place in the State of New South Wales, the State of Victoria or the Australian Capital Territory in pursuance of this regulation be adjourned and be continued, at a time specified in the order, at a sitting to be held at some other place in the State of New South Wales, the State of Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory or Norfolk Island, and may vary any such order.

(4.) The Supreme Court may, at any stage of a proceeding, if the judge is satisfied that the further hearing of the matter outside Norfolk Island is not contrary to the interests of justice, order that the hearing of a matter, otherwise than in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, at a sitting held in Norfolk Island be adjourned and be continued at a time specified in the order, at a sitting to be held at a place in the State of New South Wales, the State of Victoria or the Australian Capital Territory, and may vary such order.

 

(a) Made under the Norfolk Island Act 1957 on 27th September, 1962; notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 11th October, 1962.

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