South Australian Consolidated Acts

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

3—Interpretation

        (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 of the Commonwealth;

"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 of the Commonwealth applies by virtue of a proclamation made under section 41(2) of that Act;

"State matter" means—

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

            (b)         a matter 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(3), 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.

        (3)         In this Act, a reference to a Commonwealth Act is a reference to that Act, as amended from time to time.