Limitation on applications for review of services contracts—other proceedings in progress
14 Limitation on applications for review of services contracts—other proceedings in progress
An application to review a services contract must not be made under subsection 12(1) if other review proceedings have been commenced in relation to the services contract, unless the other review proceedings:
have been discontinued by the person who commenced them; or
have failed for want of jurisdiction.
A person must not commence other review proceedings in relation to a services contract if an application to review the contract has been made under subsection 12(1), unless:
the application has been discontinued by the person who made it; or
the proceedings in relation to the application have failed for want of jurisdiction.
In this section:
other review proceedings means proceedings in relation to a services contract:
under a provision of a law of a State or Territory that makes provision as mentioned in paragraph 7(1)(c) and is not affected by the exclusion provisions; or
under a provision of a law of the Commonwealth, or of a State or Territory, that is specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph.
Paragraph 7(1)(c) relates to laws that provide for contracts to be void etc. on an unfairness ground.
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