Queensland Consolidated Acts

JURISDICTION OF COURTS (CROSS-VESTING) ACT 1987 - SECT 3

(1) In this Act--

Family Court means the Family Court of Australia;

Federal Court means the Federal Court of Australia;

Full Court, in relation to a Supreme Court of a State, includes any court of the State to which appeals lie from a single Judge of that Supreme Court;

judgment means a judgment, decree or order, whether final or interlocutory;

party, in relation to a proceeding, includes a person who intervenes in the proceeding;

proceeding does not include a criminal proceeding;

special federal matter has the same meaning as in the Jurisdiction of Courts (Cross-vesting) Act 1987 (Cwlth);

State includes the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory;

State Family Court, in relation to a State, means a court of that State to which section 41 of the Family Law Act 1975 (Cwlth) applies by virtue of a proclamation made under section 41(2) of that Act;

State matter means a matter--

(a) in which the Supreme Court has jurisdiction otherwise than by reason of a law of the Commonwealth or of another State; or

(b) removed to the Supreme Court under section 8;

Territory does not include the Northern Territory or the Australian Capital Territory.

(2) A reference in this Act, other than a reference in section 4(1), to the Supreme Court of a State includes, if there is a State Family Court of that State, a reference to that State Family Court.