Crown Proceedings Act 1993

Subject to this Act, any other Act of the State, any relevant rules of court and the Judiciary Act 1903 of the Commonwealth – proceedings may be brought by or against the Crown in the same way as proceedings between subjects; and the same procedural and substantive law applies to proceedings by or against the Crown as in proceedings between subjects.

Subject to the regulations, proceedings may be brought by or against the Crown – in the case of the State Crown – under the name "The State of Tasmania"; or in any other case – under the name in which the Crown could sue or be sued in the courts of its own jurisdiction.