Corresponding courts and interstate laws
4 Corresponding courts and interstate laws
Subject to subsection (2), the Administrator may, by notice in the Gazette, declare that:
a law of a State is an interstate law for the purposes of this
Act; and
a specified court of the Territory or a court belonging to a specified class or description of courts of the Territory is, for the purposes of this Act, a corresponding court in relation to a specified court of a participating State or in relation to a court belonging to a specified class or description of courts of a participating State.
A declaration shall not be made under subsection (1) in respect of a law unless the Administrator is satisfied that that law substantially corresponds to the provisions of this Act and contains provisions that are referred to in this Act as provisions of an interstate law that correspond to specified provisions of this Act.
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