Trans-Tasman Proceedings Act 2010

This Part applies to:

a civil proceeding commenced in an Australian court; and

a civil proceeding commenced in an Australian tribunal, but only if:

the tribunal’s procedural rules permit an initiating document relating to the proceeding to be served outside Australia; and

the tribunal is prescribed by the regulations.

However, this Part does not apply to:

a civil proceeding that relates wholly or partly to an excluded matter; or

a civil proceeding that relates wholly or partly to an action in rem; or

a civil proceeding in an Australian tribunal, being a civil proceeding of a kind prescribed by the regulations; or

a civil proceeding that relates to a matter of a kind prescribed by the regulations.

For the purposes of subparagraph (1)(b)(ii), the regulations must not prescribe a tribunal unless, at the time of making the regulations, the tribunal is declared under section 55 of the NZ Act to be a tribunal to which subpart 5 of Part 2 of that Act applies.