Western Australian Consolidated Acts

CORPORATIONS (WESTERN AUSTRALIA) ACT 1990 - SECT 44A

44A .         Transfer of proceedings by Family Court and State Family Courts

        (1)         This section applies to a proceeding with respect to a civil matter arising under the Corporations Law of Western Australia in a court (in this section called the first court ) having jurisdiction under section 42A.

        (2)         If it appears to the first court that — 

            (a)         the proceeding arises out of, or is related to, another proceeding pending in the Federal Court, or in another court of a State or of the Capital Territory, and that the court in which the other proceeding is pending is the most appropriate court to determine the first-mentioned proceeding; or

            (b)         having regard to — 

                  (i)         whether, in the first court’s opinion, apart from this Division or a law of another State or the Capital Territory corresponding to this Division, the proceeding, or a substantial part of it, would have been incapable of being instituted in the first court; and

                  (ii)         the extent to which, in the first court’s opinion, the matters for determination in the proceeding are matters not within the first court’s jurisdiction apart from this Division or such a law; and

                  (iii)         the interests of justice — 

                the Federal Court, or another court of a State or of the Capital Territory, is the most appropriate court to determine the proceeding; or

            (c)         it is otherwise in the interests of justice that the Federal Court, or another court of a State or of the Capital Territory, determine the proceeding — 

                the first court must transfer the proceeding to the Federal Court, or to that other court, as the case may be.

        (3)         Subject to subsection (2), if it appears to the first court that — 

            (a)         the proceeding arises out of, or is related to, another proceeding pending in another court having jurisdiction under section 42A in the matters for determination in the first-mentioned proceeding, and that the other court is the most appropriate court to determine the first-mentioned proceeding; or

            (b)         it is otherwise in the interests of justice that the proceeding be determined by another court having jurisdiction under section 42A in the matters for determination in the proceeding — 

                the court must transfer the proceeding to the other court.

        (4)         If — 

            (a)         the first court transfers the proceeding to another court; and

            (b)         it appears to the first court that — 

                  (i)         there is another proceeding pending in the first court that arises out of, or is related to, the first-mentioned proceeding; and

                  (ii)         it is in the interests of justice that the other court also determine the other proceeding — 

                the first court must also transfer the other proceeding to the other court.

        [Section 44A inserted by No. 51 of 1991 s. 11; amended by No. 28 of 1995 s. 8.]